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Subject: Re: gnus-summary-line-format: what if an article is both answered and saved?
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Julien Danjou writes:
> On Sun, Mar 20 2011, Erik Colson wrote:
>
>>> IMHO this is a more general problem. With IMAP you can have tons of flag
>>> (the default ones like \Seen, \Draft, but also custom ones like `work'),
>>> and Gnus has no way to represent them correctly. :(
>>
>> You're probably right... but what other email client does ?
>
> AFAIK, none do better.

There are clients out there which support custom flags through IMAP
keywords; newer Thunderbirds can do this, for instance (I think they do
it automatically if the server supports it, otherwise they're stored in
the local database).

-David