[Dovecot] The Status: header is forced

[Charlie Brady]

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, 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.

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).

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Charlie