X-Status flag, reconstruct and a suggestion

[Diego Rivera]

Hello all

As I suggested earlier, it would be nice if "reconstruct" had a
mechanism in which the "X-Status" flag could be parsed and applied so
that the "Read/Replied/Important/..." flags could be kept when doing a
migration from UW-IMAP (or such).

Someone on this list replied that it was a good idea, and a patch could
be warranted for this functionality.  I'd like to ask what the status of
that is, and how I may help.

Secondly, it seems to me that a drawback from cyrus not keeping the
X-Status flags (for efficiency, and I understand this) is that if the
databases are corrupted, the state of a user's mailbox is lost
completely and all mails are re-marked as "unread".

So - would there be any negative impact to adding to Cyrus-IMAP the
ability to mirror the bits in the index database for these status flags
in an X-Status header, for added robustnes (at the potential cost of a
performance hit when viewing e-mail).

Basically, "reconstruct -x" could now rebuild the "entirety" of the
state information for mailbox indexes.

Would this be viable (as a default-off option even)?  Who would I
coordinate with to help in this regard?

Best

Diego
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