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

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 09:13, Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> 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?) -- 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?

Because it would involve way too much network traffic to do it this way
and the message wouldn't "appear" in the same location in the
message-list after you have changed the follow-up flag since we would
have to delete the old copy on the server and upload a new copy with the
headers added.

> 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.

Jeff

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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
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