Re: Setting deleted flag before delivery

[Steinar Kaaro]

--On Friday, February 04, 2005 09:29:08 AM -0800 Mark Crispin 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

The short answer is: there is no option to deliver a message as deleted.
As you discovered, your hack with X-Status won't work, especially not
with messages in formats other than traditional UNIX (since X-Status is
only with traditional UNIX format).
To do it right, you'll have to add a switch to dmail to set \Deleted,
that works much like the existing -s switch that sets \Seen.
I kind of expected this answer, but I had to ask.
However, I question why you want to do this.  What's the point of
delivering a message if it's going to be deleted?
It's a long story: The messages have been filtered, and inserted into a 
database system for further manual processing before being delivered to the 
shared box. Sometimes the processing in the database system fails, and 
there is a need to reply to some of the messages. Since there are a lot of 
other types of messages being delivered to the same box, I came up with the 
idea of flagging the filtered messages as deleted. This would make it easy 
for the users to separate them. I can of course deliver them to a separate 
box, but since it's a large number of boxes, the flagging would keep things 
a bit simpler.
In general I think it would be nice to be able to manipulate all the IMAP 
flags before delivery (not only the seen-flag).

Thank you for a great product, and excellent support.
Steinar