[Dovecot] Maildir and IMAP keywords

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Jan 21 16:21:23 EET 2010


On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 10:25 +0100, Per-Erik Persson wrote:
> When a user in thunderbird toggles some flags like junk, spam or 
> something similar dovecot appends these flags form a-z to the end of
> the file in maildir.
> 
> I have another application that also access the maildirs which gets 
> really upset with these flags and ignore those emails.
> 
> Are there any other way for dovecot to store these flags to make it 
> compatible with other softwares?

I thought that a..z way was the most compatible way, because Maildir
spec says "New flags may be defined later." I've never before heard that
some software didn't like them. How about fixing that one software
instead?

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