Hi,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'.
My dovecot is 0.99.10.4 (FreeBSD port), but the behavior is still the same in the CVS version.
olive
- Olivier Tharan <olive@pasteur.fr> (20040326 17:34):
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.
FYI the procmail rule:
,---- | :0 fw: formail.lock | * ^Status: R?O | | ${FORMAIL} -I "Status" `----
-- olive
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Olivier Tharan wrote:
Nor should it.
Is the Status: header really needed in every case? This breaks mutt which displays mails with a 'O' flag instead of 'N'.
Is mutt accessing the mail store directly, or via IMAP?
Well, I fixed it with a procmail rule, as these headers are undoubtedly needed with other MUAs.
Are you sure? If so, they are broken. RFC 2076 identifies the "Status:" header as non-standard. It's used for per-message storage of flags (which is done another way by dovecot with Maildir storage).
-- Charlie
- Charlie Brady <charlieb-dovecot@e-smith.com> (20040330 13:03):
In this case, the mail is fetched with fetchmail and then mutt accesses local mailboxes.
So mutt could be broken then?
But, when I fetch mail from my Dovecot server on a local machine, and open the mailbox with mutt, I am most likely to not have seen the mail before, so I do not understand why the Status: should be 'O'. (well I suppose this has been debated before on various lists, so I will dig on my own :)
-- olive
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Olivier Tharan wrote:
If you want a consistent view, I'd suggest you use IMAP to access the mailboxes.
I don't think this has much to do with dovecot.
-- Charlie
A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right. Q: Why should i start my reply below the quoted text?
[ This belongs to an old thread so I keep extra info upfront ]
- Olivier Tharan <olive@pasteur.fr> (20040330 18:31):
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'.
-- olive
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