[Dovecot] Manual thread breaking from Thunderbird

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 20:51 +0200, rosenfield.albert at gmail.com wrote:
> > That could be one use case, but since no clients do that I doubt it's a
> >  very useful one for a while. :) I'm mostly thinking about using virtual
> >  mailboxes for custom webmails, at least initially.
> 
> ;-)..
> I find it to be a problem that you're the one who decides what it's
> useful for and what it's not :-P.

I'm not deciding, just observing.

> >  > Is it possible to ask Dovecot via IMAP to look for other things in the
> >  > virtual folder, for example all items with the flag "huey lewis"
> >  > applied?
> >
> > Yes (other than spaces not being allowed in flags). It's built using a
> >  fully functional IMAP SEARCH query.
> >
> >  > Is this sort of query fast / indexed?
> >
> > Current implementation is a bit slow, but in future it will be fast.
> 
> So at what point will it be possible to have Dovecot index whatever
> the client asks it to index? :-)

No idea. Would be at least useful to have a standard to base it on. Of
course no-one prevents you from coding it sooner. :)


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