Re: Unread Messages

Hi Brock,

On Aug 06, 2004, at 19:01, Brock Tice wrote:

>   I've been using ZOE for two days, and have searched the general and 
> devel mailing lists to no avail - is there some way to search for or 
> display only unread messages? I looked a bit into the search engine 
> syntax and noticed one can search by field. Is there a specific field 
> I should search by?

Nothing accessible directly to the end user.

While the application gives access to the full Lucene query syntax, 
most of the indexed fields are for internal consumption, not for the 
end user. The only fields which can be queried directly right now are 
'subject', 'header', 'szyear', 'szmonth' and 'szday'.

Now... for some obscure reasons... it looks like a sizable proportion 
of users enjoy complex query syntax and feel frustrated by the current 
lack of opportunity provided by the application to express their 
baroque creativity :o)

Technically speaking, providing direct access to all the message 
headers for query purpose is pretty straightforward, at the cost of 
bloated indices.

On the other hand, going down the road of something as convoluted as 
IMAP search query is not very appealing.

Perhaps there is a middle ground? Maybe a smallish set of well known 
header would suffice?

Thoughts?

Cheers,

R.






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