[imp] filter - applying

[Atif Ghaffar]

Ok, here is a possible solution.

Combo of Client-Side/Server-Side filtering.
This will be super-cool.

One of the features I like of the IMP's client-side filtering is
that it allows you to apply a filter on the mailbox at any time.

Here is a simple scenario that I find myself in from time to time.
I subscribe to a mailing list for a software that I am using,
I keep getting messages in my INBOX, I participate actively, and after
some time I have to work on another project as my primary project.
At that time, I dont like getting tons on messages about the previous
project in my INBOX, but I still want to get those messages, so I set a
filter (using Sieve) to File those messages in the proper folder.

Now I dont get bugged my messages from softwareX-dev@lists...,
softwareX-cvs@lists... etc any more.
But I still have a few hundred messages in my INBOX.

Time to apply filter(client-side) on the INBOX et voilla. Magick!!!!!


See, the combo can work good.

Stay tuned for more.!!! I must go and work on project-Y for a while.




Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:
> This is the kind of thing that I'd really like to see go into a seperat=
e Horde
> application, and not be bloating IMP. The client-side filters are only =
there
> because people really wanted _some_ kind of filtering, and that's the o=
nly
> solution that will work for everyone.

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