On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Timo Sirainen wrote:
I think Sieve (+ ManageSieve) could already do all of this. It's just normally meant to be used with MDA, but nothing would prevent from running the script when IMAP server sees it for the first time.
I hadn't considered invoking Sieve from imap, I'll look into that as a more scalable solution.
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.
Andy