[Kde-pim] Non-standard IMAP flags in KMail

[Richard Hartmann]

On 19/09/2007, Volker Krause <vkrause at kde.org> wrote:
> On Friday 14 September 2007 12:57:55 Tom Albers wrote:

> > Additionally a wish: I would like to have a generic way to assign that to a
> > user readable label like 'todo', 'follow up' or 'whatever'. I think we
> > should make that a lib so kmail and other mailclients can share the meaning
> > of those $labelN's.
>
> Well, that's exactly the point I don't like about this approach, $labelN
> doesn't have any meaning unless you define it exactly the same on every
> machine you use for accessing the same account. Using $ToDo, $Forwarded, etc.
> avoids this problem in the first place.

It is probably best to create a doc with use cases, labels that cover them
and submit that to freedesktop.org (or some other entity). Poking the other
mail clients in the design phase could create a de facto standard, solving
this problem in the medium term.


Richard
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