From c40bb1691cf2c18175c58e1ce36b6dc814bda230 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Bremner Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 10:44:23 +2000 Subject: [PATCH] Re: gmail label support patch available for oflineimap --- 22/50045103c570ac9d5d78c08d423cecf4c5f9d8 | 86 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 86 insertions(+) create mode 100644 22/50045103c570ac9d5d78c08d423cecf4c5f9d8 diff --git a/22/50045103c570ac9d5d78c08d423cecf4c5f9d8 b/22/50045103c570ac9d5d78c08d423cecf4c5f9d8 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..cf0ec0280 --- /dev/null +++ b/22/50045103c570ac9d5d78c08d423cecf4c5f9d8 @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@ +Return-Path: +X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBCEE431FB6 + for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 06:44:36 -0800 (PST) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: 0 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] + autolearn=disabled +Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) + by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) + with ESMTP id I7zoMQv0O0HJ for ; + Mon, 26 Nov 2012 06:44:36 -0800 (PST) +Received: from tesseract.cs.unb.ca (tesseract.cs.unb.ca [131.202.240.238]) + (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) + (No client certificate requested) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4DED6431FAF + for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 06:44:36 -0800 (PST) +Received: from convex-new.cs.unb.ca ([131.202.245.35]) + by tesseract.cs.unb.ca with esmtpsa + (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) + (envelope-from ) + id 1TczvA-000075-Fn; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:44:34 -0400 +Received: from bremner by convex-new.cs.unb.ca with local (Exim 4.80) + (envelope-from ) + id 1Tczv5-0000du-4C; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:44:23 -0400 +From: David Bremner +To: Rainer M Krug , notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Subject: Re: gmail label support patch available for oflineimap +In-Reply-To: +References: +User-Agent: Notmuch/0.14+76~g84a0c52 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.2.1 + (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) +Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:44:23 -0400 +Message-ID: <87zk24ctko.fsf@convex-new.cs.unb.ca> +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain +X-Spam_bar: - +X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 +Precedence: list +List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." + +List-Unsubscribe: , + +List-Archive: +List-Post: +List-Help: +List-Subscribe: , + +X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 14:44:37 -0000 + +Rainer M Krug writes: + +> there is a patch available for synching gmail labels to X-Keywords in +> the message (full thread see +> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.offlineimap.general/5943 ). +> +> Would notmuch be able to translate these X-Keywords into tags, so that +> one could use notmuch and it's tags as gmail uses the labels? + +Reading tags from X-Keywords would be a Simple Matter of Programming +(TM), although you'd have to be sure you could trust that header as +injected by you and not some evil adversary. There would also be some +questions about forwarding such messages (e.g. should the X-Labels be +stripped when forwarding). + +I expect there would be some resistance to writing X-Labels back to +message files, since having read-only message files is more or less a +design goal. + +In summary, it could probably be done, but I'm not sure it would be a +better approach than interfacing directly with gmail via their extended +IMAP interface. Personally, if I was interested in solving this +problem, I'd be more interested in a solution that didn't wed me to +offline imap, if the two solutions were in the same rough ballpark of +effort. The direct method would also not modify mail messages. Still, +others might feel differently. + +The notion of storing labels in messages has been mooted before as a +general synching solution. That might make it more interesting to me. + +d -- 2.26.2