General discussion about Zoe, a web based e-mail client with a built in SMTP server and Google-like search functionality.

Zoe | 1 May 2003 17:16

Re: tagging e-mails with keywords?

On Thursday, May 1, 2003, at 14:24 Europe/Zurich, Adam Spiers wrote:

> Is it possible to retroactively tag an email with a keyword after it
> is imported into Zoe?  For instance, if the email relates to a topic
> 'foo' despite not containing the word 'foo', how could one ensure that
> it would appear in a search for 'foo'?

A word needs to appear somewhere in the message to be indexed. Tagging 
messages 'postmortem' is not supported presently. On the other hand, 
there is a 'Keywords' header which could be use for such a purpose:

Search keys for data base            Keywords:      RFC 822: 4.7.1
retrieval.                                          RFC 1036: 2.2.9.

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2076.html

But I doubt that many email clients use such a header... and the 
application is not explicitly handling it at the moment.

As far as 'topic' goes...  I think that this would be better handled 
through a simple bayesian classification mechanism ala POPMail.

R.

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Adam Spiers | 2 May 2003 12:55

Re: tagging e-mails with keywords?

Zoe (zoe_info <at> mac.com) wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, May 1, 2003, at 14:24 Europe/Zurich, Adam Spiers wrote:
> 
> >Is it possible to retroactively tag an email with a keyword after it
> >is imported into Zoe?  For instance, if the email relates to a topic
> >'foo' despite not containing the word 'foo', how could one ensure that
> >it would appear in a search for 'foo'?
> 
> A word needs to appear somewhere in the message to be indexed. Tagging 
> messages 'postmortem' is not supported presently. On the other hand, 
> there is a 'Keywords' header which could be use for such a purpose:
> 
> Search keys for data base            Keywords:      RFC 822: 4.7.1
> retrieval.                                          RFC 1036: 2.2.9.
> 
> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2076.html
> 
> But I doubt that many email clients use such a header... and the 
> application is not explicitly handling it at the moment.

So presumably the only way is to discard the email, externally edit
and reimport?  If there is a wishlist, please could you put this on
it?   I would imagine the interface being something very simple,
e.g. in the message display view, changing

  REPLY ALL | FLAG | DISCARD | VIEW

to

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