On 1/6/07, Serge Knystautas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 1/6/07, robert burrell donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> sorting isn't good enough for me either: emails need to be tagged with
> meta-data on the server. meta-data can then used to present a folder
> based view to a client or for any other purposes. i think that a rules
> engine plus a domain specific language would work better than SLIEVE.
Robert,
I'm right there with you. I don't know if GMail has it perfect, but I
find tagging and better searching much more powerful than the
foldering system I have from 10 years of emails in IMAP.
Do you see any way to backfit tagging concepts into IMAP, or do we
need a separate protocol (perhaps http/restful as you say)?
Couldn't you just use metadata to present a view of the mail as if it
was in a folder structure?
I mean, the idea of "moving" mail into folders is really only a UI
metaphor when the mail is in a db, there's no earthy reason why the
underlying storage has to be structured in the way the view presents
it as long as the two things are compatible.
Desiging a metadata model that supported the creation of hierarchical
views as well as more straightforward uses could be interesting.
d.
d.
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