[Dovecot] Future enhancement of imap: sorting?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mar 7, 2008, at 5:17 AM, Andy Dills wrote:

>>> The idea for virtual folders based on search criteria is quite
>>> interesting, by the way. How would you enable users to create them  
>>> from
>>> their client?
>>
>> I'm just going to make it read the configuration from a file. How it
>> gets there is not my problem, at least not yet. :) So it'll  
>> probably get
>> some kind of a web configuration tool.
>
> Makes sense. This feature has a large amount of potential and I  
> would love
> to see it implemented. The possibilities are exciting, such as a  
> adding a
> button to atmail's addressbook to create a virtual folder for that
> contact, which would contain mail sent from them, with a sub folder
> containing mail sent to them. Even something as simple as being able  
> to
> associate a message with multiple folders without requiring multiple
> copies on disk is a nice improvement.
>
> Do you have any timelines in mind for this feature? I'd be happy to  
> help
> work out the bugs. No pressure, I'm just excited to offer new and  
> useful
> functionality to our users.

I'm not sure. It's the next thing on my TODO list, so maybe in a  
couple of months. I'm soon going to be quite busy for 5 weeks,  
probably won't get much Dovecot work done.

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