Re: [Ifile-discuss] Mailing List Filtering

[Jack Bertram]

* clemens fischer <address@hidden> [030306 12:04]:
> address@hidden:
> 
> > Every night, a cron job scans through all folders and looks for
> > messages which have been put into the wrong folder (X-Ifile-Hint
> > says FOLDER_1 but the email is in FOLDER_2).  It tells ifile to
> > delete the message from FOLDER_1 and add to FOLDER_2.  Thus, if
> > FOLDER_2 is new, ifile learns about a new category.
> 
> ah, now i got it!  this is my biggest problem with ifile:  what i'd
> call `category' is named `folder', but a folder for me is the place
> actual messages are stored on disk.  there's this huge difference
> to ifile folders, which really are items in its database.

So you store many different ifile categories in the same folders on
disk?

This probably improves ifile's classification, but would be difficult to
implement under my approach above, as you said earlier.

jack