Re: That newfangled IMAP thing...

[Vegard Vesterheim <vegard.vesterheim@uninett.no>]

On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:06:49 +0200 Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> wrote:

>>>>>> Vegard Vesterheim <vegard.vesterheim@uninett.no>:
>
>> ... I find this concept of presorting email into actual folders
>> cumbersome, one email message may fit into several different
>> folders. Imagine being able to just stuff all your email into one
>> large folder, and then having a good search engine to access this.
>
> FWIW opera mail has done this, and google/gmail has done this, and I
> never got comfortable with either.

Yes, I think the later versions of thunderbird also does some
aggressive indexing of email in order to do advanced and effective
searching. Some people seem to like this.

You can of course keep the old folder structure, but you would just
define them as virtual folders instead. Your email-client doesn't
necessarily need to be aware of this as long as the search/retrieval
is done effectively.

> The presorting I do is split mail for mailing lists.  Crossposted emails
> end up in the first matching rule and gets followups only for that list.
>
> I don't try to manually sort email later, but I move/expire mail into
> archive folders (I back all high-traffic folders with archive folders),
> and I would have liked search that spans both the folder and its archive
> folder.

Reminds me of another problem with separate folders. I tend to archive
my replies in the same folder as the original message to keep the
thread intact. My regular outgoing email is archived in the "Sent"
Folder. Whenever I want to search for my own messages, I often find it
hard to decide which folders to search in.

 - Vegard V -