Hello,

We installed dovecot-0.99.10.2 on Monday and upgraded to dovecot-0.99.10.4 today, but our eudora users still are very unhappy: old undeleted mail messages are donwloaded every time they use our server.

Looking into the source code, we found that dovecot knows about the following status flags:

A: answered F: flagged (?) T: draft (?) R: seen (read) D: deleted

However, it does not know and ignore the O flag. According to IETF (http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-palme-mailext-headers-08.txt) the following flags are valid (I know, it's a draft and not RFC):

U: message is not downloaded and not deleted R: message is read or downloaded O: message is old but not deleted D: to be deleted N: new

"Combinations of these characters can occur, such as "Status: OR" to indicate that a message is downloaded but not deleted."

The old mails of our eudora users contain exactly this flag combination:

Status: RO

Could the compatibility problem somehow be fixed? Currently our system is pretty unusable for the users :-(

Thank you and best regards, Jozsef

E-mail : kadlec@sunserv.kfki.hu, kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu PGP key: http://www.kfki.hu/~kadlec/pgp_public_key.txt Address: KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics H-1525 Budapest 114, POB. 49, Hungary