Re: [Evolution] Filter on other than INBOX

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 11:29 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Le mardi 12 avril 2005 à 16:51 +0800, Not Zed a écrit :
>
> > > 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 ?

Not practical.  Headers are immutable.  You can only change them by writing a whole new message and deleting the old one.

> 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