Re: nnimap: editing articles

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Wed, Feb 08 2006, Ted Zlatanov wrote:

> Right.  So basically, implementing labels is easier with flags than
> with IMAP editing, and much faster.
[...]
> I would stick to a-zA-Z0-9_.- as the character set...  It's probably
> safer to avoid the other characters such as @ or = IMO.

ACK

> A custom flag "MyFlag" can be set like this:
> APPEND "Inbox" (\Seen MyFlag) [etc...]
>
> I used a message by Mark Crispin to get this information:
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.mail.imap/msg/ab2bab9722a80272?dmode=source&hl=en
[ <news:Pine.LNX.4.63.0504270833510.15123@shiva2.cac.washington.edu> ]

> I propose that for backends that can't support flags, e.g. nntp or
> nnrss, we use the gnus-registry (if installed) to track the flags by
> message-ID as a fallback.

Sound good.

There was a discussion about user-defined flags in Gnus some time ago:
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/59998>.
Simon wrote that Gnus already supports user-defined flags, but that
there's no user interface available.

- For IMAP, the label (or "flag" or "mark") should be stored on the
  server.  There should be a mapping to a Gnus flag.

- Labels should not be lost when the article is copied/moved to a
  local (nnml, nnfolder, nnmaildir, ...) group.

Rmail also supports labels, see (info "(emacs)Rmail Labels").  Where
it makes sense, we could provide a similar user interface.

Bye, Reiner.
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