Question about 'flagged' attribute

[Brian Awood]

This was just discussed on the list,  check the thread 
"ANNOTATEMORE => METADATA and rfc 5464" in the archive.

-Brian

On Monday 23 November 2009 @ 04:17, Julien Vehent wrote:
> Hello Cyrus guys,
>
> I was wondering if there were any undergoing work to extend the
> "flagged" attribute of IMAP into something more configurable ?
>
> I am thinking of some sort of labelling similar to what is
> implemented on gmail, for example, but also with the wirtual
> folders in Outlook and extended tagging in Thunderbird.
>
> AFAIK, so far these features have been implemented in the email
> clients. But because I consult my emails with, at least, 4
> different clients (cellphone on windows mobile, laptop with kmail,
> webmail with roundcube, other laptop with thunderbird), I would
> like to have the categories (flags, labels, whatever) an email
> belongs to stored inside the IMAP server.
>
> I'm not really aware of the work going on around IMAP, I figured
> you guys might know a little more about this, and maybe be working
> on something specific to cyrus-imap?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Julien
>
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