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

[Jim Meyer <purp wildbrain com>]

On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 19:28, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> I doubt this will ever be implemented in Evolution unless some third
> party implements it such as yourself.

Would that I could. I was hoping that someone would find this easy to
implement or, failing that, worthwhile to keep on the list.

> On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 21:44, Jim Meyer wrote:
> > 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.

True. I didn't know is if there was some underlying storage format which
was closely bound to the protocol. I suppose further thought should have
led me to conclude that anything is possible in software.

> > But that's just my $0.02.
>
> 2 lines of code would have been more welcome :-)

I've got tons of code; I just don't know where to put it. ;]

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Jim Meyer, Geek At Large                              purp wildbrain com