Re: [exim] Mark messages as read

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Michael F. Sprague wrote:

> Marc Sherman <msherman@???> wrote:
> > On Di, 29.03.2005, 16:13, Michael F. Sprague sagte:
> > >
> > >>I imagine that is 100% dependent on the mailstore you are using.
> > >>For example I know that Cyrus and Courier IMAP packages use
> > >>different methods to mark a message as read. Then there are the
> > >>different MUAs that access the messages either in mbox or maildir
> > >>format.
> >
> > Is this really an IMAP-implementation specific thing? I thought that
> > marking messages as read was just a property of the storage format --
> > ie: mbox, maildir, etc. For example, in maildir, if the info section at
> > the end of the filename (after ":2,") contains the S flag, the message
> > is marked read. Similarly for mbox, the "Status: RO" header is added to
> > read messages.
> >
> > Since Exim implements the various storage formats, it could conceivably
> > allow a way to mark a message as read in the transport as the message is
> > delivered. I'm pretty sure it doesn't, currently, though.
> >
> > I'd like to see that on the wishlist, myself.
>
> I agree with you Marc, but he would definitely need to figure out how the
> mailstore does it first. Then it could probably be done via exim, but how
> 'hard' it would be depends on the required method. :)

It is easy for maildir:

maildir_tag = whatever_you_want_on_the_end_of_the_filename

in the transport will do it.

I guess you just add the header you need for mbox.

No wonder we love exim.

Marilyn Davis

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