[Dovecot] The Status: header is forced

[Timo Sirainen]

On 21.6.2004, at 19:17, Olivier Tharan wrote:

>> * Olivier Tharan <olive at pasteur.fr> (20040326 17:34):
>>> I started testing dovecot for our next POP/IMAP server (nearing
>>> production state), and noticed that the Status: header is always
>>> added, with a value of 'O' or 'RO'. This happens in
>>> `lib-index/mbox/mbox-rewrite.c'. This does not seem to happen in
>>> the Maildir case.
>>>
>>> Is the Status: header really needed in every case? This breaks
>>> mutt which displays mails with a 'O' flag instead of 'N'.
>>
>> Well, I fixed it with a procmail rule, as these headers are
>> undoubtedly needed with other MUAs. I did not find any reference
>> on which (IMAP software or mutt) have used this header first.
>
> Sometimes it is good to read back some good old manual. My
> problem is easily solved with a single keyword in the fetchmail
> configuration file: 'dropstatus'.

Dovecot shouldn't actually be sending this header to you in any case, 
even if it's in the mbox file itself. It was too difficult to implement 
for 0.99.10, but it's done in latest 1.0-test releases.
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