Re: Saving passwords and general IMAP issues

[Stuart Parmenter <pavlov netscape com>]

I had a few ideas.  the Message list window would need to become a
GtkCTree.  If this is done, then it would just be a matter of sorting
the messages into a tree hierarchy and posting them in there.

Bruno Pires Marinho wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, micah craig wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 20:08:54 Jules Bean wrote:
> > >[snip]
> > >
> > > If we can just have a) use of the 'LIST' command to find all folders and
> > > b) periodic checking of *all* folders for new messages, then it will
> > > already be arguable superior to any existing free Linux IMAP mailer.  If
> > > we add to that message threading (not as in libpthread, as in discussion
> > > threading) then it will be a killer..
> >
> > Message threading is something I would like very much to work on.
> > I've been
> > reviewing the balsa code to get familiarity, but I have not yet
> > gotten
> > this deep.  Can someone give me an idea of what would be involved in
> > implimenting message threading in balsa?  Can libmutt help us in
> > this?  Is
> 
> You can look at the code mutt uses to implement threading (groupping the
> emails, etc). This code is available in balsa on libmutt dir but is not
> compiled in and the files not in Makefile.am where not updated when I
> updated the libmutt code so you need to get the latest from
> http://www.mutt.org (the one I used was 1.0i).
> So you need to see what is important and first updated the files on
> libmutt and then add the files Makefile.am be compiled in.
> 
> Another thing you need to do is to code some functions on libbalsa to wrap
> the libmutt code.
> 
> > the widget being used for message lists sufficient to display thread
> > trees, or
> > will we need to change it?  Pointers to particular source files
> 
> The widgets may be the problem. Maybe Stuart Parmenter has an idea in how
> to add threading to the mailbox index when he rewrote the interface.
> 
> > and/or
> > documentation that would be relevant to getting these features
> > implimented
> > would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks very much.
> 
>                                                Bruno Pires Marinho
>                                       http://camoes.rnl.ist.utl.pt/~bapm/
> 
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