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[Alexey Melnikov]

David Lang wrote:

> On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Bron Gondwana wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:10 +0100, "Alexey Melnikov" 
>> <alexey.melnikov at isode.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Bron Gondwana wrote:
>>>
>>>> While we're at it, I'm much more interested in cross-folder 
>>>> searching with sort
>>>> order that doesn't require folder as the first item, but that's 
>>>> significantly more
>>>> complex!
>>>>
>>>>
>>> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-morg-multimailbox-search-01>?
>>> If you have some additional use cases in mind, please let me know.
>>
>>
>> "with sort order that doesn't require folder as the first item".  I 
>> guess you could return
>> multiple ESEARCH responses with the same folder mentioned to get the 
>> ordering...
>>
>> It's still more folder-centric than otherwise, and it's going to make 
>> following threads
>> across folders (say INBOX and a couple of time based archive folders) 
>> tricky!
>
>
> thinking about this a bit more, it sounds almost like what you are 
> wanting is a third mode of addressing messages.
>
> currently we can do
>
> message # in this folder
>
> messageUID in this folder
>
> and something like folderUID:messageUID would open up what you are 
> looking for (probably plus more)

This looks like very similar to an IMAP URL. And URLFETCH command 
already operates on IMAP URLs.

> Would it be possible to take a character that can't appear in a 
> message# or UID position in the existing protocol and define it as a 
> delimiter for this? (I used ':' in my example above as I believe that 
> '-' is used to indicate a range of messages)
>
> If it is, then this would 'just' be a new addressing option like UID 
> currently is, and like UID, clients would opt-in to this new mode. (it 
> would still need a RFC for the new mode, but does this sound like a 
> solution to what you are looking for?


Regards,
Alexey

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