From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/60009 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: add labels to articles for nnimap groups Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:02:13 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Theoretical Physics, University of Ulm Message-ID: References: <87k6o7vaxi.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <87zmx2r1uo.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <87br9ixn9f.fsf@mat.ucm.es> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111154652 23331 80.91.229.2 (18 Mar 2005 14:04:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:04:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M8550@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Mar 18 15:04:12 2005 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13] ident=mail) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCI3h-0000OE-H6 for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:02:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1DCI4H-0002nd-00; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:03:13 -0600 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1DCI4D-0002nY-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:03:09 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DCI4B-0004zI-76 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:03:07 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1DCI4A-0004Ea-00 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:03:06 +0100 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DCI29-00009S-DY for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:01:01 +0100 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.10.123]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:01:01 +0100 Original-Received: from Reiner.Steib by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:01:01 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 39 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de X-Face: mtjf/D:es1T0wHO:&CJ'ZXe"l;3C--rw\z!{`eFwL){|]RpI+4{u25L=5C /0>KuGeTsk<~<&NE-AKV1560e!+RJeyWmSskkrJm?[vUV#66{T_m|Ae<||Ku#Mk5`y&O`n~z2;n8eP J5#2h@2eQgV@E70IY_0WlEx!"&giy{+\%h1LJox$zv@/l%ZmU4^tZA>xQpnkUBVC5.jpg#0'(+2?Rs )NAr:>3<=WxHE$ktbLysDIM5TbmHu*3 Uwe Brauer writes: >>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Josefsson 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 and . 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. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/