[Dovecot] Handling of X-Status flags

Bernard Blackham b-dovecot at blackham.com.au
Mon Sep 29 17:38:09 EEST 2003


On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 05:15:16PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > With PINE, mutt and uw-imapd at least, messages are marked with
> > X-Status 'D' for Deleted, and 'T' for drafT. Dovecot reverses this
> > behaviour, using 'D' for Draft, and 'T' for Trashed.
> > 
> > Was there any reason behind this?
> 
> Maildir uses T for Trash, D for Draft. I didn't notice that mbox does it
> differently.

Ahhh... yay for (psuedo)standards :)

> > Attached is a patch that reverses this behaviour (prepared against
> > 0.99.10 but applies with a little fuzz to cvs). I'd like to hear
> > people's comments on the issue... is it just me? :)
> 
> Thanks, committed to CVS after I removed the maildir changes.

Thanks!

Bernard.

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