Le mardi 12 avril 2005 à 16:51 +0800, Not Zed a écrit : > > What would be pretty cool is a way to assign colors to mails server- > > side. Back in the days I tried to insert some X-Evolution-Colors (or > > something like that, I can't remember how Evo called this field) to the > > mails by hand but it was stripped by Evo. Nowadays it seems Evo stores > > that somewhere in the summary. I'd really like to be able to colorize > > mails subjects on the server (next step is to edit server-side filters > > from within Evo, but I'd be happy with a homemade filer). > > Hmm, yes, that would be handy. The only way i could see this working > would be if we changed to using imap flags for labels, and then you'd > only need to work out how to assign the 'flags' on the imap side > (which may not be that easy either). It would limit the 'colours' to > the 5 labels (which would be better than nothing at least). > > There is of course, a non-trivial amount of work to get this to work > this way, but it would have the added benefit of working across > multiple clients to the same imap folders and storing this state > server-side (well, where the server supports this feature). I think > it could also be compatible with mozilla mail's labels too. I thought IMAP custom flags were poorly supported across servers. Wouldn't just adding a custom header be a better solution ?
Not practical. Headers are immutable. You can only change them by writing a whole new message and deleting the old one.
That's easily supported by many tools (think procmail rules). FWIW I use a dozen different colors (I really enjoy visually distinguishing mail kinds, I find it as useful as code highlighting) and simply having 5 labels would be a bit restraining. Xav
