Re: FEATURE: Smart Folders? [WAS: Re: [Evolution] FEATURE: Mailing List Folders?]

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 21:44, Jim Meyer wrote:
> Howdy!
>
> Realize that I still like the very short term solution of imitating
> Galeon's Smart Bookmarks feature at a folder level; for discussion let's
> call the feature Smart Folders. 
>
> If you search a Smart Folder, it behaves normally. If you click the
> "Smart Search" button as well, two things happen:
>   * your search is done on the local folder
>   * an open-URI message is passed to the Gnome default browser 
>     with the Smart Folder URI; this opens a browser page with
>     the results of your search executed on the web-based archive

I doubt this will ever be implemented in Evolution unless some third
party implements it such as yourself.

> Now to the long-term:
>
> On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 15:56, Not Zed wrote:
> > But NNTP isn't usenet, its just used by it.
> >
> > Various groupware servers use nntp or something like it for 'group
> > discussions' still.
> >
> > I think trying to wrap some web archive or something else in something
> > not nntp is just unwise.
>
> I'm willing to agree, but I have a question: mailing list archives are
> usually in mbox format; is NNTP able to deal with that, or will there
> have to be some conversion or shift? 

NNTP is not a format, it's a protocol. It is completely independent of
the format of the message storage.

[snip]
> But that's just my $0.02.

2 lines of code would have been more welcome :-)

Jeff