Question about 'flagged' attribute

[Julien Vehent]

On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:48:30 -0600, Dan White <dwhite at olp.net> wrote:
> On 23/11/09 10:17 +0100, Julien Vehent wrote:
>>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. 
> 
> Per RFC 3501 (page 63):
> 
>        PERMANENTFLAGS
> 
>           Followed by a parenthesized list of flags, indicates which of
>           the known flags the client can change permanently.  Any flags
>           that are in the FLAGS untagged response, but not the
>           PERMANENTFLAGS list, can not be set permanently.  If the
client
>           attempts to STORE a flag that is not in the PERMANENTFLAGS
>           list, the server will either ignore the change or store the
>           state change for the remainder of the current session only.
>           The PERMANENTFLAGS list can also include the special flag \*,
>           which indicates that it is possible to create new keywords by
>           attempting to store those flags in the mailbox.
> 
> 
> It appears 2.3.x supports '\*':
> 
> dwhite at thebrain:~$ imtest ...
> <cut>
> Authenticated.
> 111 select INBOX
> * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen)
> * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen \*)]
> <cut>
> 111 OK [READ-WRITE] Completed
> 222 store 1 +flags (reallyreallyimportant)
> * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen reallyreallyimportant)
> * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen
> * reallyreallyimportant \*)]
> 222 OK Completed
> 333 search keyword reallyreallyimportant
> * SEARCH 1
> 333 OK Completed (1 msgs in 0.000 secs)
> 444 logout
> * BYE LOGOUT received
> 444 OK Completed
> Connection closed.


Great ! Thanks for the pointer, I'll look into this and see if it's
supported by the clients I use.


Julien