Re: gmail-like mail backend?

[Ian Soboroff <ian.soboroff@nist.gov>]

Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp> writes:

> I've come to really like the gmail notion of "groups" (really called
> "labels") actually just being views into a big pool of messages, so that
> a single message can easily exist in many groups, and things that happen
> to that message (mark it as read, delete it) are immediately visible in
> all relevant groups.  Another nice thing (in general) is that it ends to
> operate on threads as a whole, rather than individual messages; e.g., if
> you add a particular "label" to a thread, subsequent replies that arrive
> in that same thread show up in all relevant labels/groups, without the
> need to add classify them.  Moving threads around is very lightweight.

I've often thought about this, but in the context of nnir groups.
(Think dynamic labels.)  Unfortunately, it's hard to do anything
useful except read messages in an nnir group.  Likewise digest groups.

Ian