[ingo] Ingo and Sieve IMAP flag Extension

[Jeffrey Borg]

I have just had a look at a particular users mail and it seems he is
using the Seen flag exactly like this. And yes there is duplicate
messages in the queue too.



On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 18:33, Jan Schneider wrote:
> Zitat von Daniel Eckl <daniel.eckl at gmx.de>:
> 
> > Hi List!
> >
> > I have a problem regarding how ingo builds the sieve script for setting
> > IMAP
> > flags on messages.
> >
> > E.g. if I want a filtered message to be flagged as seen, then ingo build
> > a
> > script like:
> >
> > if address :all :comparator "i;ascii-casemap" :contains "To"
> > "virusalert at domain.net"  {
> >     addflag "\\Seen";
> >     fileinto "Archiv.virusalert";
> >     removeflag "\\Seen";
> >     stop;
> > }
> >
> > This "removeflag" seems to crash cyrus' lmtpd silently with error code 75
> > but the message will be delivered nevertheless (!!!), so all mails which
> > should be flagged will be delivered and flagged correctly _and_ stay as
> > duplicate in the mailqueue. *brrrrr* I had spent a lot of time to figure
> > this out...
> 
> Yeah, I experienced the same here too.
> 
> > Regarding to the corresponding Internet Draft
> >
> (http://www.globecom.net/ietf/draft/draft-melnikov-sieve-imapflags-00.html)
> > I think this should work without an error, but I miss the sense in the
> > action "removeflag". If I change the script and delete the "removeflag"
> > action, all is working fine, lmtpd exits with status 0 and the messages
> > will be flagged and moved and all you want.
> >
> > So what should the "removeflag" do exactly? Could we leave it out
> > completely
> > or, if this action has a sense, can we accomplish this in another way, so
> > cyrus' lmtpd won't have problems?
> 
> The reason is that these flags are not single message flags but rather
> "modes". That means that each message that is filed after "addflag" will
> get this flag, not only the message handled in the if block.
> 
> Jan.
> 
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