Re: "All Messages" view, comparable to Lotus Notes

Harald Leithner <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.dbmail
Organization ITronic
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Btw. do you think it would be possible to alias the same folder under  
multiple names?

I'm thinking about the "Sent messages" folder or the "Sent" folder or the  
"Gesendete Objekte" all the same but every client uses its own name...


On Sun, 03 Aug 2014 00:22:26 +0200, Paul J Stevens <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Creating the view is not a problem. Using that view is.
>
> Remember that messages also need to be exposed through imap. Even if you
> set up the views, that still requires some code changes, depending on
> the way such global message views would be implemented.
>
> So no: no easy way. The imap code really relies on the current schema.
> That schema tries to enforce a strict relationship:
>
> owner -> mailbox -> message -> metadata
>
> Currently mailboxes are implemented as intermediate tables. Simple, but
> not very flexible.
>
> Google doesn't do it that way; there messages are in one mailbox per
> user, and mailboxes are implemented as 'views' based on flags assigned
> to messages.
>
> But we could define a special kind of mailfolder, maybe in a special
> namespace, just like we do now for #Public and #User for shared  
> mailboxes:
>
> #View
>
> could be used to define virtual mailboxes that circumvents the
> message->mailbox reference
>
> #View/ALL
> #View/<flag or label>
>
> I think that would be a very useful new feature. If someone wants to do
> this, I'd be happy to review any patches.
>
>
>
>
>
> On 02-08-14 20:17, Martin Richter wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> ​
>>
>> is there any easy waz to implement a view which shows all e-mails stored
>> in a users e-mail account like Lotus Notes does?
>>
>> The only similar thing is a feature request for vFolders which is fairly
>> old.
>>
>> ​
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> ​
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
>>
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