[haiku] Re: Mail categories
- From: "Clemens Zeidler" <clemens.zeidler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 15:47:11 +1300
Hi,
this week I want to integrate my local imap implementation into the mail
daemon which should result in a MDR refactoring and maybe small changes in
the mentioned attributes. Probably I can help you a bit more by end of the
week.
Am 31.12.2010, 23:44 Uhr, schrieb Sean Healy <jalopeura@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
1) What does BeOS/Haiku use for the actual filename of the mail? (I know
this name doesn't appear in Tracker when viewing mail, but it still
needs to exist, and needs to be unique within its folder.
the filename is composed in
http://haiku.it.su.se:8180/source/xref/src/add-ons/mail_daemon/system_filters/inbox/filter.cpp
in the method ProcessMailMessage... Its a combination of subject, date and
from attribute.
2) What goes in the MAIL:chain, MAIL:account and MAIL:reply_with fields?
I've looked at the source code, and they seem to be coming from a mail
chain. Unfortunately, I don't know what a mail chain is, except that it
seems to be a flattened BMessage in a file. Is this file created when I
set up a mail account? How do I determine the name and id of a mail
chain from within a perl/bash environment?
probably unnecessary if you just want to convert mails and don't use them
with a special existing account
3) MAIL:thread appears to be simply the subject, with things like "Re:"
and list names (between [ and ]) stripped out. Is that correct?
haven't looked into it but there is a thread filter...
4) Is there a standard way to store things like tags/categories? I know
that People files use the META:group attribute, and my instinct is to
use that for mails as well (Outlook, for example, uses the same
categories for email and contacts). However, if there is some standard
that existing BeOS/Haiku mail programs expect, I would rather use that.
don't know yet but ideas are welcome I also want to show different icons
for forwarded and replied mails and have no concrete idea how to store
this flags. Don't like the current solution to overwrite the status
attribute because it can only store one state.
5) MAIL:unique_id is only written in RemoteStorageProtocol.cpp. Is it
only necessary for remotely stored files?
think this is the server id of the mail, the id is needed to check if the
mail is already downloaded or missing.
6) MAIL:fullsize would logically be the sum of MAIL:header_length and
MAIL:content_length. Is it?
Are this attributes actually used somewhere? I think the only interested
information would be the total message size which could be different to
the file size for partial downloaded (header only) mails.
7) Searching the internet revealed the potential existence of
MAIL:filter_flags. What is this attribute?
don't know
cheers
Clemens
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