On 27.3.2013, at 17.28, Pablo Vieira <pa...@vieira.es> wrote: >> 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? :) >> >> Thanks Timo, I'm not quite sure what IMAP METADATA is. Will have some > spare time this summer. Any good readings about IMAP you can recommend? > MIght as well help in that department.
METADATA is simply about adding simple key=value pairs to mailboxes. So you could have something like: /shared/keywords/$Label1 = Important /shared/keywords/$Label2 = Work /shared/keywords/HelloWorld = Hello World messages Probably it wouldn't need to be any more complex than that. The clients would then handle adding/changing/removing those keywords. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5464 describes METADATA.
