Not much of an email review

Posted Mar 25, 2010 18:35 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
Parent article: Not much of an email review

This is 2010, and folders have been consigned to a dim, dusty, and hierarchical past; now we do everything with tags.

Unless tags can be added by procmail, or by implication ('directory' tags corresponding to the mail's storage location, for example) it seems to me that this makes the whole thing nearly useless: how do you keep distinct mailing lists separate, for instance?

I still haven't found anything to compare to Gnus's 'everything looks like Usenet' approach. Gnus with a xapian searching backend would be amazing. ... and now I look for it I see that there is an nnmairix backend, which all the cool people probably knew about years ago. I think I'll be trying that...

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Not much of an email review

Posted Mar 25, 2010 21:07 UTC (Thu) by foom (subscriber, #14868) [Link] (1 responses)

If you use sieve instead of procmail, you can add tags during delivery. Probably if you use an
alternative delivery agent with procmail you can add tags too, but I don't know.

Not much of an email review

Posted Mar 26, 2010 13:29 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Well, procmail can execute arbitrary code at delivery time, so I suppose it probably can add tags. If it's as simple as adding a mail header, it'll be easy.

Not much of an email review

Posted Mar 25, 2010 22:06 UTC (Thu) by spaetz (guest, #32870) [Link] (1 responses)

You can assign tags according to rules. When I sync with my imapserver, I also assign tags according to mail addresses. Folder location in not yet a tag/search criteria but it is in the todo.

Not much of an email review

Posted Mar 25, 2010 22:21 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Well, if procmail can assign tags, there is no problem :)