Re: Checking Status of Other Messages?

[Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On lør, 2004-12-11 at 03:48 +0100, Felix E. Klee wrote:
> are there any Sieve extensions that allow retrieving information about other
> messages on an IMAP server?  If not, would such extensions be possible.

not sure if that is in scope or not, but I don't think a proposal must
be rejected on that basis.  however, no other Sieve mechanism depends on
anything but the message itself.

> To be specific, I'd like to have an extension that allows me to check whether
> any of the messages mentioned in the "References:"-header are flagged.

that's not a very general feature, is it?

one other obstacle is that Sieve has no method for iterating over the
IDs in References.  (In-Reply-To may be a better header to check.)

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Kjetil T.