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Re: [sup-talk] IMAP, labels, editors



*Damien Leone* wrote:

>> Thanks for explaining.
>> Yesterday I spent a couple of hours to search for more details about
>> *sup*, *notmuch* and *offlineimap*.
>> What I still have not completely understood is how *sup* is going to
>> store label information inside Maildir sources.
>> According to this message
>> (http://lists.madduck.net/pipermail/mailtags/2007-August/msg00016.html),
>> IMAP tags would not be perfect (even if probably the best solution in
>> my opinion).
>> Another problem is that is not completely clear if *offlineimap* would
>> sync also these "special" tags.
>
> Currently everything is stored in the xapian database that stays local
> to sup. On the maildir-sync branch, only the following flags are
> exported [0].

| Flag "F" (flagged): user-defined flag; toggled at user discretion.
I have not completely understood what can be stored inside this special
user-defined flag.

Here (http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir#IMAP_keywords) I
found a non-standard way to implement some flags, but I don't how if
offlineimap would support it.

> That means that you have two sets of labels, the ones on the IMAP
> server and the others in sup. Usually offlineimap will create a
> Maildir source per IMAP label (at least with gmail) so it is easy to
> add them separately in sup and auto-apply rules for each (such as
> apply a label, archive messages from this source, etc.) so it is not
> too painful.
>
>> Therefore the only possible solution seems to have a personal server
>> running 24/7 and using *sup* via *ssh*.
>
> Yep, that's my case.

Unfornately it doesn't apply to me, also because I have a standard ADSL
home connection.

> [0] : http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html

-- 
Lurkos


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