Re: nnmaildir vs offlineimap: patch to use flags properly

["Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@toke.dk>]

Magnus Henoch <magnus.henoch@gmail.com> writes:

> But it seems like nobody saw it, so I'm making some noise here.  What do
> you think about the patch?

I've tried it out, and from my initial testing it appears to work quite
well. I've been using a script to sync the flags back and forth on every
run of offlineimap, which is sort of hit and miss. As in, there have
been a few mails that are not updated. I think this has to do with the
renaming of filenames that offlineimap does to keep track of files. So I
had a bunch of mails that were not marked with the S flag, but which
gnus considered to be seen. When enabling your patch, those turned up
again, and I did not seem to be able to mark them as read. Marking them
externally (in this case using Mutt) did seem to clear everything up
though, and new mails are marked correctly. Moving mails around between
folders also seems to work. I'll keep using this for a few days and see
if anything odd turns up.

Other than that, many thanks for writing this patch; I've been bothered
by this for a while, but not enough to do something about it. I don't
suppose there's any way to sync/store expired flags in the same way? I
seem to be able to add an E flag to mails in my maildir, and offlineimap
syncs it to the server, but then it seems to be discarded; at least it's
removed by offlineimap on the next sync. I'm afraid I don't know enough
about the imap protocol to know whether this is just because my imap
server is rubbish, or whether it's expected protocol behaviour...

-Toke

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Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
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