Re: [lemonade] Taking the knife to METADATA

[Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@xxxxxxxxx>]

Cyrus Daboo wrote:

> Hi Alexey,
>
> --On March 13, 2008 10:03:44 PM +0000 Alexey Melnikov 
> <alexey.melnikov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > 1) Remove the dependency on LISTEXT. This basically means turning the
> > > clock  back to the original ANNOTATEMORE extension. So the GETMETADATA
> > > command  would be used to retrieve mailbox annotations as well as 
> > > server
> > > annotations.
> >
> > That is fine with me.
> >
> > You forgot handling on comparators in GETMETADATA.
>
> Actually I am not proposing that GETMETADATA provide a way to search 
> annotations (which is what LISTEXT does).

But LISTEXT is not relevant to per-server annotations (i.e. 
METADATA-SERVER).

> If you want searching, then write an extension to this extension that 
> does use LISTEXT.

But it is possible to search for everything else in IMAP (headers, text 
in body parts, flags, etc.), so lack of search would be awkward.