How do I list flags?

Ken Murchison murch at andrew.cmu.edu
Sun Apr 9 22:55:50 EDT 2006


Ciprian Vizitiu wrote:
>> Are you talking about message flags?  Cyrus supports all of 
>> the 'system' 
>> flags in RFC 3501 (\Recent, \Seen, \Deleted, \Flagged, \Answered,
>> \Draft) and any 'keywords' that the client desires.
>>
>>  From an IMAP level, you'll see the flags listed in the 
>> PERMANENTFLAGS response to a SELECT.
>>
>>  From the filesystem level, you can see the keywords that the 
>> client/user has used in cyrus.header in each mailbox.
> 
> Hi Ken,
> 
> Thanks for help, indeed I was referring to "message flags". Message flags
> out of which, as I've discovered from bitter experience, "\Recent" can NOT
> be set by the client! :-D

Correct.  Any server which allowed a client to do so would violate RFC 3501.

-- 
Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer
Carnegie Mellon University


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