[MlMt] due dates?

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 26 Mar 2018, at 16:41, Eric Sharakan wrote:

> On 23 Mar 2018, at 11:37, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
>
>> Just for the record, I consider this the same feature as when asked 
>> about postponing or snoozing messages. Some times [“tickler 
>> (file)”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickler_file) is used (which 
>> I kind of like) and even “discard” (temporarily). There are 
>> probably more names. Some times the services followup.cc and Sanebox 
>> are also mentioned.
>
> So I understand the concept of postponing messages, as I did at one 
> time use a (now-defunct) iOS email client that did just that, but only 
> for gmail.
>
> But what I'm asking for goes a bit further than that.  I also want to 
> be able to preview upcoming messages, not just wait until the day 
> they're due for them to pop into view in some way.  MailTags allows 
> for that, and even provides its own set of (somewhat configurable) 
> smart mailboxes to see messages due today, soon, or further in the 
> future.  In addition, the messages could be color-coded by how far in 
> the future their due date was.

I *think* most of this would be possible with the implementation I 
described.

>> Apple uses a nice trick for colored flags where up to 8 different 
>> colors can be specified using 3 IMAP keywords. These flags are named 
>> `$MailFlagBit0`, `$MailFlagBit1` and `$MailFlagBit2` and the 
>> “trick” is to use them as the bits of a number.
>
> I didn't realize those were just named keywords; I actually thought 
> there was an available bitfield they were utilizing.  To mimic Apple 
> Mail's fags submenu, I had created a set of smart mailboxes named for 
> the various colors Apple used, with the condition being the 
> appropriate combination of those three keywords.  That is, until I 
> learned about the flags>>color condition you had made available. :-)

And now you also have “Message is ▸ Flagged ▸ Red” (and family) 
when editing conditions.

-- 
Benny
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