Hi Jack, On 04/14/2015 08:20:17 PM Tue, Jack wrote:
On 2015.04.14 19:51, Peter Bloomfield wrote: [snipped most] sorry - but more questions...Balsa uses five message flags to characterize the state of a message, corresponding to five of the six IMAP flags <URL:http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3501.html> (Balsa doesn't use \Draft): \Seen Message has been read \Answered Message has been answered \Flagged Message is "flagged" for urgent/special attention \Deleted Message is "deleted" for removal by later EXPUNGE \Recent Message is "recently" arrived in this mailbox. This session is the first session to have been notified about this message; if the session is read-write, subsequent sessions will not see \Recent set for this message. This flag can not be altered by the client. For an mbox-style back-end, Balsa stores these as follows: \Seen: 'R' in the Status header \Answered 'A' in the X-Status header \Flagged: 'F' in the X-Status header \Deleted 'D' in the X-Status header \Recent no 'O' in the Status header So toggling 'New' (or 'Unread'--I've no idea why it's labeled differently in the Message menu and the context menu!) will add or remove the 'R' in the Status header.Observation: not only does it use different labels, the context menu only has Flagged and Unread, missing Answered and Deleted. (Also not that the label says "Unread" no matter what the current state, even though it seems the flag indicates Read not Unread.)
Yeah, there's more than one inconsistency here :) Not sure about the history...
Also noticed: I have a maildir folder, and just grepping for the status header in all messages (in the 'cur' folder) most have no value, some have R and a few more have RO. In addition, there are messages in this folder with the flagged icon and some with the answered icon, but I see no F nor A in any status flag header. This is with Balsa 2.5.1. Am I missing something?
The Status and X-Status headers are used only in the LibBalsaMailboxMbox back-end, and are ignored in the others. For maildir, the flags are stored differently: the file name is appended with 'F', 'S', 'R', or 'T', according to \Flagged, \Seen, \Answered, and \Deleted. Peter
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