[Dovecot] Handling of X-Status flags

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Sep 29 17:15:16 EEST 2003


On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 15:16, Bernard Blackham wrote:
> I noticed that Dovecot uses the opposite flags for marking messages
> as deleted and draft to most other MUAs I've seen or used:
> 
> With PINE, mutt and uw-imapd at least, messages are marked with
> X-Status 'D' for Deleted, and 'T' for drafT. Dovecot reverses this
> behaviour, using 'D' for Draft, and 'T' for Trashed.
> 
> Was there any reason behind this?

Maildir uses T for Trash, D for Draft. I didn't notice that mbox does it
differently.

> Attached is a patch that reverses this behaviour (prepared against
> 0.99.10 but applies with a little fuzz to cvs). I'd like to hear
> people's comments on the issue... is it just me? :)

Thanks, committed to CVS after I removed the maildir changes.




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