On Mon, Jul 2, 2007, Uwe Kiewel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Charles Marcus schrieb: >>>>> 'Virtual Folders' obsoletes old style message filters - server or >>>>> client side - by a huge factor... now I'm just waiting for >>>>> server-side virtual folders (this is on Timos list for dovecot, I >>>>> think for v 2)... >> >>>> What's the difference with dbmail's current IMAP folders? They are >>>> after all virtual too, as is pretty much everything in dbmail. And >>>> you use sieve to filter messages into them appropriately -- what >>>> kind of filters are you talking about? >> >>> I think he is talking about virtual folders on the client site like >>> GNOME's evolution it does >> >> Precisely... any message can be in any number of 'virtual' folders if it >> meets the search criteria defined for said virtual folder, but the >> actual message only exists once in the file system. >> >> Thunderbird now also supports virtual folders. 2.0 support seems much >> better (v 1.5 support was buggy, at least for me)... >> > > But... server side filotering has the advantage to put the messages in > sepearte folders if your imap client do not support virtual folders. So, > I prefer the sieve option :-)
DBMail's folders are definitely not virtual. They're very much real in terms of linking messages into mailboxes. There are client side virtual folders, generally based on search criteria, and that's because the client side has a UI and its own message/header storage and so it can just do whatever. Server side virtual folders are a more complicated proposition because there need to be IMAP commands that map onto frontend UI features in a relatively efficient way, and yet everything else must still make sense if the UI does not support those commands. This is something I would definitely like to do. See this wiki page for more ideas and a link to recent Internet drafts: http://dbmail.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=v-folders Aaron _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
