[Design] Email (and other) ideas

[hartr at interweft.com.au]

On 20 Oct, Paul Saitta wrote:
> Hi,
>   A few ideas, mostly related to email handling:
> 
>   Recursive folders are taken as the de facto concept for email
> organization, but they're really rather limiting -- messages have to be
> manually moved from folder to folder, and a message appears in only one
> folder.  Instead, the concept of database style views on the message store
> seems much more useful.

Take a look at the database functionality of the open source mail
program 'Ratatosk' (tkrat).

This allows you to have the same message in many 'folders' - because a
folder can be simply defined as a database search.

I use this feature all the time as it makes managing email incredibly
simple and very flexible.

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