On Jan 26, 2010, at 9:02 AM, Tim Gray wrote: > If you take away the assumption that Letters will act as (essentially) a view > into, and manipulator of, the IMAP, and consider instead that it merely > understands and can act on mail from an IMAP server, a good deal of > functionality and approach options open up. > > I agree with this statement. You have to ask yourself a couple questions > though. Does Letters act as an island? Does it download email, do its > thing, and be damned with syncing those actions and results back to a central > source? If so, then fine. Do whatever you want; Letters gained a lot of > power to do all kinds of things. But you basically have a glorified POP > client at that point.
It could be a combination of the two, couldn't it? This might complicate things, but couldn't it both download and act on items independent of the server, and mirror certain changes back to the server? Since you can't control other IMAP clients and what they do, or support, can we extend actions such that some are mirrored on the server (for instance, flagging an item) while others (such as tagging a message, or translating a message from one language to another) are not? That said, nothing precludes the Rules idea from verging away from just making it's changes on the server. I think it limits the possibilities a bit in terms of future features, and limits the real extendability of rules and plugins, but the basic UI premise holds. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
