[Cialug] Web Slowing Down

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

On 2009-03-11 at 08:32:39, Colin Burnett wrote:
>For me gmail is about the interface, which I have yet to see matched
>in a desktop client.

For me it is tagging messages as opposed to filing them in folders. 
Sure, the way tags are implemented emulates folders (albeit without 
nesting, though there are of course Firefox extensions to fix that 
lack, should you perceive it as such). But i like being able to put 
multiple tags on messages. Are there any desktop clients that use a 
tagging model instead of a pure folder model?

I don't know enough about the IMAP protocol to know if a tagging model 
is even possible with a vanilla mail server, unless the client kept its 
own local database with all the tagging information--which would 
obliterate the main advantage to IMAP of being able to access the same 
mail in the same way from multiple clients.

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