Re: [Evolution-hackers] Difficulty of storing flags on IMAP server

["Sankar P" <psankar novell com>]

On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 18:29 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 09:18 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> > I believe that some of the flags associated with messages (e.g.,
> > follow-up) are stored by the evolution client, rather than kept on the
> > server.  For at least some IMAP servers it should be possible to define
> > custom flags on the server and use them.
> > 
> > This would be very useful to me, since I'm accessing the mail from
> > different locations.  Any idea how big a job this would be to add?  I
> > might do it, if it's easy.
> > 
> > BTW, is anyone planning on working on the problem that messages flagged
> > initially flagged as "follow-up" and later flagged as "completed" still
> > show up when you filter by "follow-up"?
> > 
> 
> Search for CAMEL_MESSAGE_INFO_USER_FLAGS and uses of mi->user_flags in
> Camel (better search for "->user_flags" as that mi part is sometimes
> called info and sometimes with a bunch of casting around it called mi).
> 
> In camel-imap-folder.c you can take an example from functions like
> flags_to_label. I guess you'll need to convert your user_flags to custom
> IMAP flags somehow. Not sure how easy that is. 
> 
> You can also add new tags (user_tags), which is similar to how
> user_flags work in Camel. It looks like those are already stored
> remotely. I think tags define the colour of the rows in your summary
> view (Important, Personal, Work, etc etc).


I did some work to implement syncing custom flags support. So that you
can have custom labels in addition to the 5 standard labels. 

The patch is at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211353 

I tested it against a GroupWise IMAP implementation and it was working. 

IIRC, The only problem was all the flags were synced everytime instead
of the newly set ones alone. 

And I needed to verify it was working with the rest of the IMAP servers.

I stopped working on it because of personal reasons. If someone is
interested can take up and complete.

> 
> You'll have to write ui pieces for this too, in Evolution, of course.
> 
> 
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