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On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Niels Dettenbach (Syndicat.com) |
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<nd@××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Am 23.05.2015 um 16:20 schrieb Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>: |
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>> With Gmail I can have an email with 14 tags. Via IMAP it shows up as |
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>> if it were in 14 folders at the same time. It is a bit kludgy, but it |
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>> at least works. |
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> This is NOT part of a mail service - it is part of a mail client. There are different webmail solutions out (usable with any real mail provider) allowing unlimited tagging btw... |
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Like I said, Gmail draws the line between client and server |
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differently, and I find it more useful. |
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Are any of those webmail solutions FOSS, and do they support accessing |
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the mail by tags via IMAP using arbitrary clients? Do they support |
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tagging via keyboard shortcuts alone, at least as far as applying the |
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trash tag, removing the inbox tag, and applying the spam tag go? Do |
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they also integrate with calendar/contact/document servers? Heck, I'm |
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not even aware of a decent open calendar service protocol. Sure, |
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everybody and their uncle can export ics files, but that is one-way |
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only. |
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I find those Gmail features useful. You can argue that exposing tags |
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via IMAP violates the original intent of IMAP, but that doesn't make |
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it less useful. It is like arguing that ZFS is a rampant layering |
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violation - that is a nice philisophical argument but not nearly as |
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nice as avoiding the write hole or the need to do a read before |
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writing a partial stripe. |
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> It is typically not the wisest idea to choose a mail service by any kind of client software it offers - this remembers me hardly to the Lotus notes hype… |
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Sure, and if anybody made a decent webmail client with the features |
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above that wasn't bundled to a service I'd happily use it. |
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Rich |