Aaron Stone wrote:

> > We could introduce is_header usage even in 2.0.x, because the field is
> > present in 2.0. But is a database upgrade script acceptable, even if it
> > only fills in an already-present field?
> 
> I'd am very, very much against an upgrade script within a stable series.
> We should instead make the application robust to the missing values, and
> perhaps to fill them in on the fly. I'm not sure if this is possible with
> is_header, but I'd definitely like to try.

While filling the values in would probably be possible, they would only
be of any use if we could know, before starting a SEARCH or something,
whether the filling-in was done for this particular mailbox. We'd have
to have some kind of flag on the mailbox. Any thoughts on how to do
this?

Yours, Mikhail Ramendik


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