Messaging: Messaging Folders and Searching
Functional Description

Messaging provides folders to support organizing, managing, filtering and searching of messages.

Features

• Copy/Move Messages
• Mail List (per folder)
• Model/View Classes for SQL Store
• Search for a Message
• SQL based message store
• View Specific Messages

Copy/Move Messages

The user may copy and move messages between local folders.

Mail List (per folder)

The following mail list features are available:

• Mail view: displays a short description of each mail consisting of status, address, and subject.
• Mail view update: the view is dynamically updated as folder or mail contents changes.
• Transfer: it is possible to select messages and to copy or move them to another folder.

Model/View Classes for SQL Store

Model/View classes make the Messaging store easy to access and allow more efficient browsing of messages. These classes make writing custom message viewers quite simple.

Search for a Message

It is possible to search the contents of messages. For example, if a user has a password stored in an email they received over three months ago then they are able to search for and find that message.

SQL based message store

An SQL database is used to store selected message header and message folder data to allow fast and flexible message queries. To keep the database size manageable the actual messages are stored in part of the filesystem that is outside of the database. Provision is added for:

• Adding, removing and updating message and folder data.
• Flexible queries for retrieval and counting of common message header and folder parameters.

View Specific Messages

It is possible for a user to filter the messages viewed. For example they are able to view only messages sent by work colleagues in the current month.