Re: add labels to articles for nnimap groups

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Fri, Mar 18 2005, Simon Josefsson wrote:

> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
>>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
[...]
>>     Simon> What kind of labels are we talking about?  Do you mean
>>     Simon> user-defined message flags?  Or message/mailbox
>>     Simon> annotations?  A tcpdump log from when you use this
>>     Simon> feature in Mozilla/Thunderbird might be useful.
>>
>> What is the difference?
>
> How it is implemented on the IMAP server.
>
> User-defined flags work with most servers, and it shouldn't be too
> difficult to implement a useful user interface in Gnus for it.  But
> they are rather limited, only a short string (atom) per message.
>
> Annotations can be longer, but I'm not sure they are widely
> implemented.
>
> A tcpdump on an IMAP stream would be useful, to understand what
> technique you are referring to.

I think what Mozilla/Thunderbird has would correspond to user defined
flags in Gnus.  They provide a limited number (6) of labels, see
<URL:http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/specs/labels/> and
<URL:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114656>.

I think it would be very nice to have this in Gnus (no matter whether
the "labels" can be stored on the IMAP server or not; if so, even
better!).  It would also be nice for other (mail) back ends.  Such a
feature has been requested several times in the past.

Bye, Reiner.
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