On 19.8.2004, at 00:08, Larry Osterman wrote:
Actually if you set FLAGS to non empty and PERMANENTFLAGS to empty, all
the clients should work. You need to maintain flags in-memory even if
you can't persist them (it's in the spec), but most (if not all) clients
handle the non persistence correctly (if you think about it, they won't
know the difference typically).
Right, but that's only for the one session. For that one session you probably remember what messages you read anyway without seeing the flags at all.
Having clients store flag changes permanently in client side would be useful for publically accessible IMAP mailboxes. I think clients should do that for flags not included in PERMANENTFLAGS list, but they don't.
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