[Dovecot] The Status: header is forced

[Olivier Tharan]

* 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.
> 
> Is the Status: header really needed in every case? This breaks
> mutt which displays mails with a 'O' flag instead of 'N'.

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"
`----

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olive