On 27.3.2013, at 5.15, Pablo Vieira <pa...@vieira.es> wrote: > On this post http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2011-June/059605.html I > was asking about the possibility of using arbitrary labels on messages, > much like Gmail does. On following replies, I was told about few tricks > that might be used, that the IMAP protocol was being considering UTF-8 > labels and ways to integrate them into the current system, etc., etc., etc. > That sounds nice and all. > > I'm chiming in three years later only to know if things have changed, both > at Dovecot and at the IMAP protocol. Are we closer to have proper labels on > IMAP? Labels that help sorting messages in virtual folders where a message > can belong in several of them?
My latest idea: Keep using the rather dummy simple IMAP keywords. Use IMAP METADATA to create a mapping between keyword <-> human readable name. Dovecot is getting close to having native METADATA support. Such IMAP standard would still need to be designed though. Anyone up for writing an RFC? :)
