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Re: [sup-devel] Adding backward synchronization for Maildir sources



Hi,

Excerpts from Edward Z. Yang's message of Mon Jul 19 00:50:39 +0200 2010:
> I would recommend having some sort of flag like 'sync-back'd' programatically
> generated by sup-sync-back-maildir so that Sup will refuse to start if
> you turned on sync-backs without running this command.

Good idea, that might prevent some bad suprises.

> It seems to me that merging the Maildir flags and the Sup flags would
> let you preserve this, but for heavy Sup users this isn't a big deal.

True, and that could be done by sup-sync-back-maildir.

> I think this will be a pretty killer feature to have, because it means
> we can then assign "primary" tags and use those to have sync-backs move
> messages between Maildir folders (on the same account, I imagine), which
> would translate into a folder-sorted webmail view, which is about the
> best you can do without first-class label support in Maildir.  I know of
> at least one friend who this would be a deal-maker.

And that doesn't seem hard to implement, we should definitely consider
this feature, maybe after the primary code has been stabilized.

Cheers,

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Damien Leone <damien.leone@fensalir.fr>

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