I'm writing an entirely read-only IMAP server; it's mainly intended for serving mailing list archives. Just like a web archive, it lets anyone in (PREAUTH greeting), but maintains no per-user persistent state. So - how should I handle flags? My PERMANENTFLAGS set will be empty. \Answered, \Deleted, \Draft, and \Flagged will be initially clear for every message; should I bother making them modifiable for the current session via STORE, or is a NO response for any STORE command good enough? What about \Recent and \Seen - how should they be set initially, and should they be automatically updated during the session?
Also, should \Recent be included in the untagged FLAGS response? The description of the FLAGS response seems to require it (\Recent is a system-defined flag), but none of the examples include it. paul -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- For information about this mailing list, and its archives, see: http://www.washington.edu/imap/imap-list.html -----------------------------------------------------------------
