[Kolab-devel] Fwd: Non-standard IMAP flags in KMail

[Martin Konold]

Am Montag 24 September 2007 schrieb Martin Konold:

Hi Volker,

I further investigated this matter.

It looks like you took a totally expired draft (anyone can make up a draft) as 
a guideline.

I am afraid that this draft did not only expire but it also did not get enough 
support fromt he community in order to become a RFC.

Did I overlook some aspect?

Regards,
-- martin
P.S.: - OL2K7 uses more than a single IMAP Flag
      - KONSEC Konnektor for OL would be able to use any available IMAP Flag
        just as kmail.
      - For many purposes a plain boolean flag is not enough. E.g. flags have
        colours and replied has a date....

> Am Freitag 14 September 2007 schrieb Volker Krause:
>
> Hi Volker,
>
> can you please explain which new commands (if possible verbatim) there will
> be on the IMAP tcp connection?
>
> With which servers did you test?
>
> Regards,
> -- martin
>
> > Forwarded here as suggested by Bernhard.
> >
> > ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> >
> > Subject: [Kolab-devel] Non-standard IMAP flags in KMail
> > Date: Monday 10 September 2007
> > From: Volker Krause <volker at kdab.net>
> > To: kolab-devel at kolab.org
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > we have been implemeting support for storing all message status flags of
> > KMail on a Kolab server. So far only standard IMAP flags (seen, answered,
> > important) haven been stored there. For the non-standard flags (todo,
> > forwarded, ignored, watched) I have been looking at what IMAP flags other
> > mail clients use for that, with the following results:
> >
> > - Outlook 2007 is claimed to support only one flag for IMAP items, no
> > idea if this is correct (I don't have it here to test it myself), but it
> > would mean there is no support for custom IMAP flags. Can anyone confirm
> > this? - Thunderbird uses $labelN
> > - there is a draft dealing with extended IMAP flags:
> > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-melnikov-imap-keywords-03
> > However, this still does not cover all flags we need (watched and ignored
> > are missing).
> >
> > Has anyone additional information on that topic, ie. which mail client
> > uses what additional IMAP flags?
> >
> > Overall, it seems that $<name> is the "standard" way of dealing with
> > extended flags that have a general, not client-specific meaning. So,
> > unless that conflicts badly with any other client out there, I would
> > suggest to follow that for KMail by using $ToDo, $Forwarded, $Ignored,
> > $Watched.
> >
> > regards
> > Volker


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