... but - are you saying that I don't even need to change into HALFOPEN mode in order to be able to append messages to any kind of mailbox without the "Status: O" flag being set? That I just have to keep the stream in READONLY mode?
Stream readonly status refers to operations on the opened mailbox (the selected mailbox in IMAP terms); it affects such operations as setting/clearing flags and expunging. It does not in any way affect operations that work on a mailbox by name, such as append.
So I think that the answer to your question (if I understand it correctly) is "yes".
-- Mark --
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