[imp] Marking forwards, categories?

Michael M Slusarz slusarz at mail.curecanti.org
Thu Jun 9 09:45:19 PDT 2005


Quoting Simon Detheridge <simon at widgit.com>:

> I wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to have forwarded messages as marked 'forwarded'?
>
> Jan wrote:
>
>> Chuck is right, there is
>> no IMAP flag for forwarded messages, but keep a flag in IMP's message
>> history. Hope that clears things up.
>
> Thanks. Yes, that helps a lot.
>
> Now that I look closer, I can see that the history is working too -
> When I click
> on a message to read it, I get messages such as 'You replied to this message
> on...' and 'You forwarded this message on...'.
>
> So, it seems like the only thing I am missing is a 'forwarded' icon in the
> mailbox display.
>
> It seems like this should be trivial.

It wouldn't be difficult code-wise, it would just be a performance 
killer.  If you had 50 look-ups to do on a mailbox page this would be 
50 DB queries which, if the history table is large, could take quite 
some time.

michael

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