[imapfilter-devel] Whitelist Feature Request

[Lefteris Chatzibarbas]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 12:57:29AM +0200, Yom wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 06:10:40PM +0300, Lefteris Chatzibarbas wrote:
> > The IMAP4rev1 protocol specifies a special flag that can be set in each
> > message in a mailbox.  This flag, which is named "\Flagged", is intended
> > to be used as a special/attention/urgent/etc. flag.  Imapfilter can add
> > or remove this flag from messages that match a filter, specifically with
> > the "flag" action (see the imapfilterrc(5) manual page).
> 
> But what if another program is using the same flag at the same moment ?

What do you mean by that?

This "\Flagged" flag is not some kind of lock to be used by IMAP clients
in order to indicate exclusive holding of a resource.  All IMAP clients
can, for example, read a message's flags and determine whether this
specific flag is set.

If you mean that you may have configured another IMAP client that uses
this flag for some other purpose, that may conflict with the "whitelist"
functionality already described, then the only solution is to add
support to imapfilter for custom message flags.


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