On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, DINH Viet Hoa wrote:
> > On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Marcel Crasmaru wrote:
> > > Suppose that message of sequence number 1 is unseen.
> > > The client issue the command:
> > > C: tag fetch 1 body[]
> > > and the server fetches the message but for some reasons
> > > it can not flag the message as seen (e.g., rename of a file failes).
> > > What should the server respond:
> > > 0. whatever, the server is already broken;
> > > 1. tagged OK without status of the flags;
> > > 2. tagged OK with status of the flags but with flag \seen unset;
> > > 3. tagged NO or
> > > 4. other response?
> > (0) is the answer.  :-)
> and in the case the mailbox is readonly, what is the answer ?

Readonly doesn't matter.  Only PERMANENTFLAGS matter.

A mailbox can be readonly but still allow the user to set and clear flags
(e.g. per-user flags for a public mailbox).

-- Mark --

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