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the problem i see with it is that it's all client-side filtering. when you access your email account from another computer, a webmail client, an iphone, whatev
by there 17y ago
the problem i see with it is that it's all client-side filtering. when you access your email account from another computer, a webmail client, an iphone, whatever, all of those messages are still lumped into your inbox unless you have server-side filtering.
i still use procmail on my server to shuffle messages into imap folders before any of the clients see them. mailing lists go to separate folders that i never have to look at on my phone and my inbox stays clean so that new mail notifications on my phone actually mean something important has come through.
- janl 17y agoI use procmail & IMAP on my server and raindrop as a IMAP client. Works well. In addition, Raindrop, being written on top of CouchDB, supports n-master-replication. You could just replicate your locally filtered messages to your other devices with or without going through a central server.
- sp332 17y agoWhat's nice is that you don't have to depend on every server implementing the features you want. You just have to impllement the feature once in your client, and suddenly every message from every source "supports" that feature. Mozilla has been doing this with a lot of things, like identity (with Weave) and even web app mashups (with Ubiquity) are being moved into the browser.
- omouse 17y agoClient-side filtering is far more powerful. All you need is to copy the filters to your other clients which, in effect, makes your client act as a local server :)