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John Prevost <prevost@maya.com> writes:

> As has been noted before, this is a protocol issue.  IMAP messages are
> immutable.  Therefore, to do what you want, you'd have to remove the
> old message and append a new one which would be nearly identical (but
> which would have a different id on the server, different flags, etc.).

Yes.  One could copy the flags to the new message, though.

kai
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