Re: Gnome-Bounties - Conversations - Was [Re: [Evolution-hackers] Re: [Evolution] proper threading headers]

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 10:35 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> >  (Frankly I've not used Gmail, but I think its
> > conversation implementation is much like a mail-list where one's
> replies
> > to posts is also included in the conversation and not only in the
> sent
> > folder?)
>
> I have no idea how to describe what gmail does... I guess something
> like
> that, sure.

Gmail doesn't use folders. It tags each message with 0 or more labels
(slightly similar to Evo's vfolders except AFAIK they don't update
dynamically). Messages are stored in Google's database and viewing sets
of them is essentially a database View, selecting on the labels. I think
the conversation concept is very useful BTW, and I've often thought it
would a nice feature in other MUAs.

poc