On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Timo Sirainen <[email protected]> wrote: >> As far as I've learned this is not possible with IMAP: >> - storing the 'do-not-show-until-time' within a custom header-field >> requires down- and uploading of the whole email and therefore causes >> problems especially with large emails >> - IMAP keywords are limited are limited in quantity and can not be >> compared with datetime functions > > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5257 could be used for this. Of course, > Dovecot doesn't support it, and it's not easy to implement efficiently. > > Probably not too difficult to implement inefficiently with v2.2's > mailbox_attribute_* API. Just create /annotations/<uid>/<key> mailbox > attributes and delete them when the mails get expunged.. >
Thanks Timo, at least one person understands me ;-) Unfortunately, both solutions require programming skills far better than I have. So I start enjoying my weekend doing other things ... thank you for your great work on dovecot! Chris
