From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: marks in gnus / uw imapd: what marks / how to set?
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 09:23:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <iluu18xrinb.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xyq3cgii9ke.fsf@samba3.ece.ucdavis.edu> (John Owens's message of "Sun, 03 Aug 2003 16:51:45 -0700")
John Owens <jowens@ece.ucdavis.edu> writes:
> I'm trying to figure out how gnus in conjunction with UW imapd stores
> the same marks.
>
> As far as I can tell, "Read" and "Old" flags are kept in Status and
> "Deleted", "Flagged", "Answered" and "Draft" are in X-Status. So
>
> Status: RO
> X-Status: DFAT
>
> is the maximum amount of flags stored here?
That I do not know.
> Gnus seems to keep other keywords. Among them is a forwarded flag,
> which is kept in X-Keywords as "gnus-forward". I haven't got anything
> else to appear in this header yet. But there are other gnus flags:
>
> gnus-replied mark - I presume this corresponds to Answered.
Yes.
> gnus-recent mark - I presume this corresponds to not-Old, but I don't
> know how this works with gnus-unseen-mark.
I think you can ignore both recent and unseen, it is just for newly
delivered mail.
> gnus-cached-mark - No idea.
Don't frob this one, it is maintained internally by Gnus, when you
add/remove an article to the Gnus cache.
> gnus-saved-mark - No idea. (Hopefully it is triggered when I copy a
> message from a folder to another folder.)
Almost, I think it is set when you save a message using e.g. O f or
something.
> Other flags? Distinction between "new" and "unread"? "edited"?
> "redistributed"?
Do you have lots of VM-"new" messages? Isn't it just a transient mark
used by vm to identity new messages? If so, it doesn't look like it
is something worth maintaining (all your messages are non-new).
"unread" is implied if you don't set a read mark in Gnus (can a
message in VM be both "read" and "unread"?). I'm not sure if there is
something similar to edited or redistributed.
> Any suggestions as to how to move these flags over would be
> appreciated. I figure perl is my best bet? Suggestions of a perl
> module that lets me parse mail a message at a time from mbox format,
> and mess with headers too, would be great.
Maybe VM can export messages to some format that Gnus support, that
supports marks? Maildir?
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2003-08-03 23:51 John Owens
2003-08-04 7:23 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2003-08-04 14:09 ` John Owens
2003-08-04 15:07 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-08-04 16:39 ` John Owens
2003-08-04 17:51 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-08-04 18:08 ` John Owens
2003-08-04 21:03 ` Simon Josefsson
[not found] ` <16174.41574.488000.239166@ece.ucdavis.edu>
2003-08-04 21:00 ` Simon Josefsson
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2003-08-03 20:36 John Owens
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