Re: [Evolution] Filter on other than INBOX

[Xavier Bestel <n0made free fr>]

Le mardi 12 avril 2005 Ã 16:51 +0800, Not Zed a Ãcrit :

> > 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.

I thought IMAP custom flags were poorly supported across servers.
Wouldn't just adding a custom header be a better solution ?
That's easily supported by many tools (think procmail rules).
FWIW I use a dozen different colors (I really enjoy visually
distinguishing mail kinds, I find it as useful as code highlighting) and
simply having 5 labels would be a bit restraining.

        Xav