Re: New mailbox interface and gmime messages

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Bart Visscher wrote:
> [snip]
> I was thinking about the imap case, you could get a selected set of the 
> headers with, for example, the FETCH command. So when doing threading you 
> first fetch all the 'message-id', 'references' and 'in-reply-to' headers, 
> use that to build a threaded tree, and than fetch only for the messages in 
> view the 'subject', 'date', etc headers.
> So if you want to minimize the bandwidth used for imap you should request 
> the absolute minimum at the display part. How the mailbox and message part 
> handles it, is not the consern of the display part, it should just ask the 
> message/mailbox where you can do a lot of smart things.

Actually, when one wants to thread messages in imap mailboxes 
one has only to parse output of
tag THREAD REFERENCES UTF-8 ALL

THREAD extension is basically supported by all imap servers used today, 
AFICT.

The same goes for sorting.

-pawel