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From: Dmitry Alexandrov <321942@gmail.com>
To: Richmond <p1299721@protonmail.com>
Cc: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Red Flag
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 22:32:51 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878tlmt5i4.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84zie217aa.fsf@example.com> (Richmond's message of "Wed, 24 May 2017 18:41:49 +0100")

> Using Seamonkey I can set a flag on a message. It appears pictorially as
> a flag if I enable the flag column. This is IMAP. If I go into Gnus and
> look at the same message in the summary articles it appears in purple in
> xterm and it does not go away when read. This is very useful. But I
> don't know how to set the flag in Gnus. Is there a way to do it?

You mean ‘ticks’, I guess, thus ‘gnus-summary-tick-article-forward’.  It is on ‘!’, ‘u’ and ‘M t’ in default summary mapping table.

> Where are the flags actually stored?

It depends on backend, of course.  With ‘nnimap’ — on IMAP server.

> I am guessing not in the headers, I can't see anything there.

A MUA generally should not modify message (and its headers in particular) at all.

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-24 19:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-24 17:41 Richmond
2017-05-24 19:32 ` Dmitry Alexandrov [this message]
2017-05-24 20:01 ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2017-05-24 20:26   ` Richmond
2017-05-24 20:50 ` Emanuel Berg

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