Re: [Evolution] Follow-up flags and labels in mail headers

[Dan Winship <danw ximian com>]

> It's nice to see the label and follow-up flag feature; they are quite
> useful.  Unfortunately the data for those features seems to be stored
> locally (can someone tell me where?)

In the summary for the folder, somewhere under ~/evolution/mail/imap/

>  -- is there a reason why it
> couldn't be stored in the mail header on the server if the store is
> IMAP, say as X-Evolution-Label or X-Evolution-Followup fields?

Well, you can't modify the message on the server, so you'd have to
delete the original and post a new one. (Which, FTR, is exactly what
Outlook does if you flag a message in an IMAP folder.)

The right long-term answer is to use IMAP annotations, which are
basically designed exactly for this. Problem is, no servers support them
yet. :) Another possibility would be to try to use flags. Theoretically,
servers should let you add arbitrary flags to messages, so you could
flag a message with "x-evolution-flag=Rm9sbG93dXA=" (that's base64 since
you can't have spaces and some punctuation in a flag name). But I
wouldn't be surprised if some servers didn't like that (and some, like
Courier, don't let you use custom flags at all).

> Evolution has all these great features and I find that I just can't use
> them because of the way I work.  (Separate installs at home, at work,
> and on my laptop.) It's increasingly obvious that there needs to be some
> framework to at least sync different copies of Evo.  Is anyone working
> on something like this?  If not, I may have a go at it.

Not that I know of.

It would be nice to separate out some of the palm syncing code into a
generic syncing framework and then have the palm sync and the evo-evo
sync (and the T68i sync!) use that. There are also some changes that
would need to be made to the syncing architecture: right now the
backends only allow for a single sync destination and if you tried to
have another one, then changes would get randomly split between them...

-- Dan