#5702 closed enhancement (invalid)
Implement a file system for Google's Gmail
| Reported by: | mmadia | Owned by: | nobody |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | File Systems | Version: | R1/Development |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Platform: | All |
Description
This would allow navigation of one's Google Gmail account as a regular file system. Query support on labels would be a feature.
Change History (5)
comment:1 by , 6 years ago
| Resolution: | → invalid |
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| Status: | new → closed |
comment:2 by , 6 years ago
Did we decide this? I would love an IMAP filesystem. I don't want to download a local copy of my mails.
follow-up: 4 comment:3 by , 6 years ago
I remember discussing it, but not really deciding on it either. And besides that, every decision can always be revised :-)
Having said that, I like that my mail is downloaded, so that I have a local copy of them. Not only as backup, but also for lookup when I don't have internet.
On the other hand, a file system could still archive all mail (optionally), and allow for a number of simplifications in the code. There is even one IMAP feature that I don't remember off hand, that couldn't be implemented otherwise.
The IMAP parser itself should already be storage agnostic.
comment:4 by , 6 years ago
Replying to axeld:
Having said that, I like that my mail is downloaded, so that I have a local copy of them. Not only as backup, but also for lookup when I don't have internet.
It's a matter of workflow. Both options are valid. In my case I would prefer to mount my IMAP box, and make a copy of the relevant mails only before I go offline, not download my whole inbox with 10 years of mails in it. I could do that with a simple query and a copypaste, if IMAP would be a filesystem.
My mailserver already has backups, of course :)
comment:5 by , 5 years ago
Remove milestone for tickets with status = closed and resolution != fixed
I think we've decided not to go with "imapfs" or something like that; so this wouldn't be something we are interested in either.