Hi Robert, first Hupa code is now in svn. It still lacks basic stuff but while reading this message I thought it would be a good time to start thinking about howto implement tags anyway.
So are you able to explain abit more about your thoughts ? Thx, Norman 2009/6/17 Robert Burrell Donkin <robertburrelldon...@gmail.com>: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Christian Grobmeier > <grobme...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Are you thinking on having "tags" like in GMail? If so I will love this >> idea! > > +1 > > tagging mail is one of the ideas which has interested me for a long > time (especially using machine learning approaches) > > it's a bit tricky to make this work well with IMAP > > gmail approaches the idea that tags are categories, and organise their > IMAP folders around them. other clients don't seem keen on this idea > and the IMAP protocol makes this tricky for more general IMAP > implementations. > > some clients use custom users flags which seems a little clumsy. > > IMAP METADATA (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5464) is interesting but > seems to lack support ATM > > one of the ideas that i've been playing around with is using a RESTful > protocol layer to support tagging and then bridging to IMAP on the > server side (perhaps using RFC 5464) > > - robert > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: labs-unsubscr...@labs.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: labs-h...@labs.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: labs-unsubscr...@labs.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: labs-h...@labs.apache.org
