[Tickets #8882] Re: DIMP: flags missing

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/8882
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  Ticket             | 8882
  Updated By         | Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>
  Summary            | DIMP: flags missing
  Queue              | IMP
  Version            | Git master
  Type               | Bug
  State              | Feedback
  Priority           | 1. Low
  Milestone          |
  Patch              |
  Owners             | Michael Slusarz
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Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org> (2010-02-25 04:51) wrote:

>> True, but it would be a great bonus if the MUAs would share their
>> flags. I think it's probably safe to use anything not starting with $
>> or \\ to be a user flag that should be included.
>
> e.g. I'm pretty sure T-bird uses "Label1", "Label2", etc. as their  
> custom message flags.  So I still fail to see how displaying the  
> IMAP keyword nameis useful (since the mappings between "Label1"   
> (the IMAP keyword)-> meaningful label resides in the MUA's  
> preferences, not the IMAP server).

On one hand that's a pity, because those flags aren't very portable  
then, otoh it makes perfectly sense for Thunderbird of course, so you  
don't have to care about charsets and special chars in labels.

> If "Label1" may mean TODO in T-bird, but will appear as "Label1" in IMP.

I still think this might be useful for few people. Custom flags are  
only used by power users anyway and my guess is that those are happier  
with seing generic label names than no labels at all.
The approach of collecting all flags and let the users decide which  
ones they want might be the better the solution, but it's also more  
work to implement.

> AFAIK, only 4 other keywords outside of RFC 3501 have "official" RFC  
> designation.  See  
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-melnikov-imap-keywords-10

Those are the (to be excluded) $ flags anyway.