Re: imap4flags and sieve filter

> Ned Freed wrote:
> > I'd also suggest that you first try to set some user-defined flag. Only 
> > after
> > you have that working should you try setting a system flag, let alone one
> > that's fairly "special" in how it operates like \Seen.
> >


> Ned thanks for the help. I haven't been very successful doing
> user-defined flags. Can you show me an example of one?

Whether or not user-defined flags (what the IMAP spec calls keywords) are
supported is up to the IMAP implementation and may in fact vary from one
mailbox or folder to the next. The PERMANENTFLAGS response to SELECT tells you
what is or isn't supported. AFAIK our server always returns something like:

* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen NonJunk \*)] 

for non-shared folders. The \* means new keywords can be created at will.

> Its the syntax that I'm mostly interested in verifying.

Keywords are any flag that doesn't begin with \. A common one you see pretty
regularly is $MDNRequired (I seem to recall that there was an internet-draft
defining this one but i don't recall whether or not it ever became an RFC).

                                Ned