Re: [Evolution] Filter on other than INBOX

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 10:43 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Hi NotZed !
>
> Le mardi 12 avril 2005 à 09:45 +0800, Not Zed a écrit :
> > On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 15:56 +0300, Juha Sorensen wrote: 
> > > On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 14:40 +0200, Fabian Roth wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > I try to run a filter for incomming mails on an other folder than the
> > > > INBOX. The account is on an IMAP-Server, where new mails are moved from
> > > > Inbox to a different folder. For that folder I like to run all my
> > > > filters.
> > 
> > If you're already filtering on the server, you should just do all your
> > filtering there.  Otherwise, don't do any there and just put the mail
> > in inbox?  Client-side IMAP filtering is a nasty/slow/unreliable hack,
> > server-side filtering is much perferrable if available.
>
> What would be pretty cool is a way to assign colors to mails server-
> side. Back in the days I tried to insert some X-Evolution-Colors (or
> something like that, I can't remember how Evo called this field) to the
> mails by hand but it was stripped by Evo. Nowadays it seems Evo stores
> that somewhere in the summary. I'd really like to be able to colorize
> mails subjects on the server (next step is to edit server-side filters
> from within Evo, but I'd be happy with a homemade filer).

Hmm, yes, that would be handy.  The only way i could see this working would be if we changed to using imap flags for labels, and then you'd only need to work out how to assign the 'flags' on the imap side (which may not be that easy either).  It would limit the 'colours' to the 5 labels (which would be better than nothing at least).

There is of course, a non-trivial amount of work to get this to work this way, but it would have the added benefit of working across multiple clients to the same imap folders and storing this state server-side (well, where the server supports this feature).  I think it could also be compatible with mozilla mail's labels too.