[Tickets #3402] NEW: Add forwarded icon to mailbox view

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=3402
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 Ticket             | 3402
 Created By         | Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>
 Summary            | Add forwarded icon to mailbox view
 Queue              | IMP
 Version            | HEAD
 State              | Accepted
 Priority           | 1. Low
 Type               | Enhancement
 Owners             | 
+New Attachment     | useforwards.diff
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Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org> (2006-02-03 08:27) wrote:

I'm cleaning up my mailbox, here's an old thread:

Am Donnerstag, 9. Juni 2005 17:20 schrieb Chuck Hagenbuch:
> Quoting Simon Detheridge <simon at widgit.com>:
> > Is it possible to have forwarded messages as marked 'forwarded'? Most
> > other mailclients do this, so I'm suprised not to be able to find this
> > feature.
> >
> > Has anyone come up with a hack/patch?
> >
> > Similarly, is there any way of applying user-defined categories to
mails,
> > so they can be marked with different colors/statuses/etc?
>
> The IMAP protocol doesn't make provisions for either of these.
>
> -chuck

Hmmm, I use thunderbird for my work mailaccount and mark messages as
forwarded
and I give them user defined status, too.

Recently I connected to my work mailbox from a newly configured thunderbird
at
home and all the flags were there, even the user defined ones. So these
flags
have to be on the server somehow (it's a cyrus).

Implementing server side user defined status flags would be better that any
hack.

Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:
Quoting Simon Detheridge <simon at widgit.com>:
It seems like this should be trivial. Is there an option I'm missing, or do
I
need to modify a php file somewhere?
You'd have to implement it. On large mailboxes it'll be quite slow.
I had a bash at it. I've attached a patch that provides the icon and works
on my
system. I expect all the seasoned developers will be horrified with the way
it's
done, as I've not had a stab at playing with horde code before. ;-)

It *will* stop my users asking for it however.

There are problems with reading fhe 'forwarded' state from the history, for
example you can't "mark as" forwarded, or similarly unmark... Not without
doing
some history-mangling, which seems incredibly unwise.

I'm thinking that a hack like this could be used to add category
information...
By adding it to the maillog for the message in question. There'd be no way
to
search on it though. It'd probably need a separate table...