Seth Spitzer wrote: > Bill Sheppard wrote: > >> I've started using the labelling feature (very nice). I have an >> excessively >> large Inbox (IMAP, about 4400 messages totalling 250MB). I recently >> deleted >> INBOX and INBOX.msf on my Win98 system in order to have Mozilla >> rebuild these >> files (the previous INBOX was 350MB, presumably rebuilding compressed >> out a >> bunch of deleted messages). Upon rebuilding the inbox those messages >> which had previously been labelled via a message filter were still >> labelled properly, but those which I had manually relabelled weren't, >> and those which match the message filter but were initially received >> before the message filter was put in place were not labelled. So my >> questions are: >> >> 1) Is the label information stored on the IMAP server, or purely >> locally (in the .MSF file?) >> > For IMAP, yes, it is stored locally in the summary file. see > http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/arch/Labels_Engineering_Plan.html for > details on why we aren't storing them on the server (yet, or if ever.) > > Off the top of my head, I think we only apply filters to new mail. > removing the summary file doesn't change the message state on the > server. So when you downloaded headers to rebuild the summary file, > the filter rules are only applied to new messages. > > cc bienvenu and naving (the IMAP and filter tag team) to confirm. > > Note, there is a bug about apply filters "after the fact". Once we > have that (it will be a while), it would allow you to re-run your > filters on your inbox, and re-label messages. But, you'd still lose > any manul filter changes. > > Note: this is for IMAP only. for local mail, the label state is > stored in the mbox file, so if you remove the .msf, the label state is > restored, even manual filter changes. > > -Seth > Can someone explain to me what "labels" refers to? I can think of nothing it would apply to. And if you mean filters, then why don't you just say so?
sid
