Re: [gentoo-user] mail server administration

[Rich Freeman]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 6:59 AM, Stroller
<stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
>
> I believe Gmail creates its own special mailboxes for things like "labels" and archived messages, which I dislike.

Ironically enough the fact that no FOSS solution allows you to do
things the way Google does them is the main thing that keeps me on
Gmail.  I want a single flat database of messages that are tagged with
one or more labels, of which the inbox is just one of them.  Heck, we
already assign every message a primary key in the form of a message
ID.

However, there is no real open and standard solution to making this
work, so I'm stuck with a proprietary solution.  Sure, a few mail
CLIENTs implement some of these features, but they're not integrated
into IMAP or compatible across clients, and so on.  I don't want a
bunch of tags on my x11 client on one particular box that are
invisible when looking at mail from an android client on a different
device, let alone using a web-based client.

I want the labels/tags/whatever baked into my mail storage and visible
across all my clients.  Back up the mail store once and all the state
I care about is backed up.  That's what you get if you want
traditional folders and use an IMAP server.

-- 
Rich