Re: [Evolution] FEATURE: Mailing List Folders?

[Jim Meyer <purp wildbrain com>]

On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 08:23, Not Zed wrote:
> What exactly do you mean?
>
> You can already setup a vfolder based on a mailing list match, and then
> search on that at will ...

True, but that only searches mail in my mail stores. Ideally, I'd love
to treat mailing list archives as a mail store, but that feels very,
very hard if not impossible. Consider instead the following:

If a mailing list is archived and searchable somewhere, I'd rather not
maintain all that mail myself; instead, I'll keep the important bits
local and use their search engine to find stuff in the list archives.
However, that means that I have to switch from email to web browser,
remember where that bookmark for their search engine is, go there, then
submit my search.

Galeon has the concept of smart bookmarks; these are bookmarks that have
the ability to receive a string argument and incorporate it into a URI,
then go there. For example, I've got a smart bookmark for Ximian's
Bugzilla which reads "http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=%s";. I
keep this on a toolbar in my browser, which causes it to show me a text
field beside a Ximian logo. If I type a number in that field and hit
enter, I'll shortly be presented with that bug number from Ximian.

What I think would be cool is to be able to store as a folder property a
similar URI (e.g. the fictitious URI
"http://lists.ximian.com/search.cgi?list=evolution&keywords=%s";) which
could be used to tell whichever browser I use to search for more results
than are available locally.

This would let me somewhat fake treating a list archive as a mail store
in a somewhat simpler manner than actually trying to treat it as a mail
store.

Meanwhile, this has given me the desire to investigate how one could
make a Mailman-archived mailing list appear to Evolution as a mail
store. THAT would be wicked cool.

Cheers!

--j

> On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 01:29, Jim Meyer wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > The bizarrest idea just popped into my head unbidden: what if a folder
> > could be designated as a "Mailing List" folder and given an external URI
> > for additional search results? 
> >
> > As most modern mailing list management software offers archiving and
> > most modern mailing list managers put search engines on top of that, it
> > would seem that something along the lines of Galeon's "Smart Bookmarks"
> > feature would be useful in the mail client as well.
> >
> > Hey, I said it was bizarre. =]
> >
> > --j
> > -- 
> > Jim Meyer, Geek At Large                              purp wildbrain com
> >
> >
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Jim Meyer, Geek At Large                              purp wildbrain com