On this post http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2011-June/059605.html I was asking about the possibility of using arbitrary labels on messages, much like Gmail does. On following replies, I was told about few tricks that might be used, that the IMAP protocol was being considering UTF-8 labels and ways to integrate them into the current system, etc., etc., etc. That sounds nice and all.
I'm chiming in three years later only to know if things have changed, both at Dovecot and at the IMAP protocol. Are we closer to have proper labels on IMAP? Labels that help sorting messages in virtual folders where a message can belong in several of them?
I consider "label vs folder" a done discussion (since labels can always include folders; a labels system can always be implemented as a folders system, but not viceversa; etc), so what's stopping development in that direction? Have any new energies being devoted to that cause?
I just seen Dovecot is number 1 among IMAP servers by a large margin. Congratulations to the devs.
Aleve.