[imp] use of X-Priority

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Marc Fellman <mfellman@xs4all.nl>:

> <SNIP> ----- Bericht van jan@horde.org ---------
> > Zitat von Marc Fellman <mfellman@xs4all.nl>:
> >
> > > I just did some tests with composing a mail with a different
> priority. I
> > > expected them to showup in my inbox as important. That didn't happen.
> I
> > > expected them to show up as important (in my case on a red line). Is
> this
> > > intended behaviour? How should the X-priority work in IMP and how
> could I
> > > set
> > > the importance-flag of a mail to show up as important?
> >
> > X-Priority is a proprietary header of email clients like Outlook and
> isn't
> > recognized by any imap server I know of.
> >
> 
> Couldn't this be used to set the importance of the message in the
> "message-
> view"? If it is 1 or 2 then mark this message as important. It could be
> that I
> look at it wrong (missing some background knowledge of IMAP protocol and
> how
> IMP uses it).

This would make it necessary to parse any message in the mailbox view for
this header, a huge performance hit.
 
> Is the method to set a message as important only something that is done
> in IMP
> and not stored in the message itself? If this is stored in the message
> then
> this could be used to exchange importance settings between imp clients.

If I understand IMAP correctly the importance flag is only to be set by the
user and not automatically by the server. Correct my anyone if I'm wrong.

Jan.

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