[MlMt] defer mail workflow in mailmate?

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 5 Dec 2014, at 18:48, Max Andersen wrote:

> But then if look at it again the message will be deferred once again 
> :/

True, if you view any of your deferred messages before their time is 
reached. (When they do return then the tag has been removed and then it 
won't happen again.)

This discussion also illustrates why it's not straightforward how such a 
feature should be implemented, especially not to allow synchronization. 
I'll give it some more thought.

-- 
Benny

> On Friday, December 5, 2014, Benny Kjær Nielsen 
> <mailinglist at freron.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 5 Dec 2014, at 16:46, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>>
>> On 05 Dec 2014, at 15:18, Benny Kjær Nielsen 
>> <mailinglist at freron.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The 1 minute is measured from the arrival of the message.
>>>>
>>>
>>> This is the problem I had when trying to do it.
>>>
>>> Makes it hard to do relative calculations.
>>>
>>> Could mailmate set/mutate a custom header ?
>>>
>>> Like:
>>> X-Defer-Until: timestamp
>>>
>>> And then be able to use that as the comparison ?
>>>
>>
>> That's kind of already possible using the existing virtual
>> “Date-Last-Viewed” header. It works fine locally, but it is not 
>> going to
>> synchronize with other MailMate installs. (Adding a header to the 
>> message
>> itself is not a good option, because it's horribly inefficient.)
>>
>> --
>> Benny


-- 
Benny