On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Bron Gondwana wrote: > On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:10 +0100, "Alexey Melnikov" <alexey.melnikov@xxxxxxxxx> 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) 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? David Lang ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
