| Rich Freeman on 21 Sep 2016 04:31:24 -0700 |
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On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 12:44 AM, Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > > If somebody is keeping all email in one folder, I can understand > needing some kind of special search. But I also can't imagine why > anyone would keep everything in one folder. > Because I don't use folders, but prefer to use tags instead, and tag operations don't change what folder a message is in? Ultimately tags involve a different data model than what IMAP/maildir/mbox/etc is designed around, and that is the issue. It moves from a 1:many relationship to a many:many relationship. Tags don't "contain" emails, they're just associated with them. You really want a database of some kind to handle them, and a protocol for syncing designed around this. The fact that emails are already assigned unique message IDs does help though. -- Rich ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug