On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 14:02, Tom Hendrikx <tom@whyscream.net> wrote:
Flags was actually the wrong phrase, the correct term is IMAP keywords. The way that Dovecot handles this internally, is described in http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir .
But it has no use to investigate the inner workings of dovecot when all clients see the data through the same interface. Dovecot will tell all clients which keywords your message has. Some clients just treat some keywords 'special'.
In https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/13983 (google is a bad company but a great tool!) there is a nice thread about differences of trash implementations between Evolution and 'the others'.
Thanks for that link. Good reading and perspective.
Recalling now, I think this issue triggered me to ditch Evolution after 2 days of testing some years ago, and into using the same client everywhere. But YMMV...
I haven't decided, yet. I've used both in different places off and on for the past few years, as well as text based mail agents in command line environments, plus some webmail systems. But at least it helps to understand better what is going on. And I may well move to Thunderbird at some point.