Re: IMAPFLAGS SIEVE extension

[Alexey Melnikov <mel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Randall Gellens wrote:

> At 5:08 PM -0500 11/11/98, Barry Leiba wrote:
>
> > I'm not fond of it, mainly because it's so IMAP-specific, and the idea
> > of allowing a filter to flag a message is too good to relegate to servers
> > that implement their SMTP delivery agent integrated with their IMAP server
> > (we do, so we could do this, but...).
>
> It seems to me that since we agree that fileinto is useful to have in
> the base Sieve spec (despite being unable to be executed by the server
> in a POP environment), that having setflag would also be useful.  On
> the other hand, I can think of some IMAP servers where Sieve can be
> implemented, including fileinfo, but where setflag couldn't be done, at
> least without changing the server's plug-in API.

In such a case you are free to ignore "setflags" (as a wrote in the document).

Other important issue. As Tim Showalter noticed setflags should be bind to
fileinto, because multiple fileinto are possible for the same message. Any
ideas? (Tim Showalter proposed to add additional parameter to fileinto, so I
mean "any other ideas" here)

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Alexey Melnikov
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