Re: [Dovecot] Future enhancement of imap: sorting?

2008-03-07 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Mar 7, 2008, at 5:17 AM, Andy Dills wrote: 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 proble

Re: [Dovecot] Future enhancement of imap: sorting?

2008-03-06 Thread Andy Dills
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'l

Re: [Dovecot] Future enhancement of imap: sorting?

2008-03-06 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 21:23 -0500, Andy Dills wrote: > > You could already create a plugin that runs a command when it sees new > > messages in a mailbox. I'm not really interested in writing this > > feature.. > > I didn't mean to imply this as a request for functionality...it would be > worthl

Re: [Dovecot] Future enhancement of imap: sorting?

2008-03-06 Thread Andy Dills
On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 20:59 -0500, Andy Dills wrote: > > > As nice as it is, it's still a personal solution. In my mind we need to > > have standardized, server-side, MUA-independant sorting rules that get > > invoked when a mailbox is checked. Thought

Re: [Dovecot] Future enhancement of imap: sorting?

2008-03-06 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 20:59 -0500, Andy Dills wrote: > As nice as it is, it's still a personal solution. In my mind we need to > have standardized, server-side, MUA-independant sorting rules that get > invoked when a mailbox is checked. Thoughts? Filtering is a better name for this, took me a f

[Dovecot] Future enhancement of imap: sorting?

2008-03-06 Thread Andy Dills
After solving a problem with a sweet little application I discovered (more on that below), I wanted to get some feedback about a potential enhancement for IMAP: standardized, MUA independant, server-side sorting. Currently, there are two basic solutions for sorting: handle it during delivery o