[imp] IMP preference message flags ordering

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting R Phillips <R.I.Phillips at bath.ac.uk>:

> I have a curious issue and don't particularly know where to look to find
> a resolution.
>
> At one point to do some diagnostics I changed the colour of the "Seen"
> message flag highlighting colour in the IMP preferences (traditional
> mode).
>
> I've just updated to the latest IMP on one test and deployment servers
> and there is a discrepancy in the order in which they are applied on the
> two different servers.
>
> One highlights the "seen" and "deleted" messages by highlighting in the
> "deleted" colour (and appears *after* "seen" in the preference listing),
> and the other applies the "seen" colour for deleted,seen messages and
> appears after deleted in the preference listing.  Both servers display
> the strike-through.
>
> Whilst on the face of it, this isn't too much of an issue, we load
> balance across two servers and different message highlighting is likely
> to cause at best, complaints.  On the whole these servers are treated
> equally and configured using identical build scripts... unless I've
> missed something....?

It's probably due to the order that the flags are returned by the IMAP  
server (or the order that they are stored in the cached message object).

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]