On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 08:23, Not Zed wrote: > What exactly do you mean? > > You can already setup a vfolder based on a mailing list match, and then > search on that at will ...
True, but that only searches mail in my mail stores. Ideally, I'd love to treat mailing list archives as a mail store, but that feels very, very hard if not impossible. Consider instead the following: If a mailing list is archived and searchable somewhere, I'd rather not maintain all that mail myself; instead, I'll keep the important bits local and use their search engine to find stuff in the list archives. However, that means that I have to switch from email to web browser, remember where that bookmark for their search engine is, go there, then submit my search. Galeon has the concept of smart bookmarks; these are bookmarks that have the ability to receive a string argument and incorporate it into a URI, then go there. For example, I've got a smart bookmark for Ximian's Bugzilla which reads "http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=%s";. I keep this on a toolbar in my browser, which causes it to show me a text field beside a Ximian logo. If I type a number in that field and hit enter, I'll shortly be presented with that bug number from Ximian. What I think would be cool is to be able to store as a folder property a similar URI (e.g. the fictitious URI "http://lists.ximian.com/search.cgi?list=evolution&keywords=%s";) which could be used to tell whichever browser I use to search for more results than are available locally. This would let me somewhat fake treating a list archive as a mail store in a somewhat simpler manner than actually trying to treat it as a mail store. Meanwhile, this has given me the desire to investigate how one could make a Mailman-archived mailing list appear to Evolution as a mail store. THAT would be wicked cool. Cheers! --j > On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 01:29, Jim Meyer wrote: > > Hello! > > > > The bizarrest idea just popped into my head unbidden: what if a folder > > could be designated as a "Mailing List" folder and given an external URI > > for additional search results? > > > > As most modern mailing list management software offers archiving and > > most modern mailing list managers put search engines on top of that, it > > would seem that something along the lines of Galeon's "Smart Bookmarks" > > feature would be useful in the mail client as well. > > > > Hey, I said it was bizarre. =] > > > > --j > > -- > > Jim Meyer, Geek At Large [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution -- Jim Meyer, Geek At Large [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
