[dev] Re: [imp] Folder overview in IMP

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org>:

> It's only unwieldy when you have a massive number of folders

Yes... but I do. And so do many people. And I'm simply not willing to have a 
feature justified by "oh, well, it'd be fine if you had fewer folders". That's not 
good design.

> If we did put that in the preferences screen, then sectioning
> the options into portions would be more essential, to avoid
> a massive preferences menu.

That idea I like.

> It would be useful as one of those '90% of people will use it like
> this' things... if we provide an abstraction framework for filtering,
> then people would probably use that in preference to manually setting
> up procmail, maildrop, sieve, or whatever other cryptic scripting 
> languages are around.

This is something I'm willing to think about more when this filtering 
module actually exists.

-chuck

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