Mario S. Mommer wrote:

I don't know how to find out. Do you? I can telnet the IMAP server, and
ask it CAPABILITIES, and it says

It appears that the permanent flags are set on a per-mailbox basis. So, you have to select the mailbox to find out. The RFC3501 shows the following example:

   Example:    C: A142 SELECT INBOX
               S: * 172 EXISTS
               S: * 1 RECENT
               S: * OK [UNSEEN 12] Message 12 is first unseen
               S: * OK [UIDVALIDITY 3857529045] UIDs valid
               S: * OK [UIDNEXT 4392] Predicted next UID
               S: * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft)
               S: * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Deleted \Seen \*)] Limited
               S: A142 OK [READ-WRITE] SELECT completed

or use EXAMINE:

   Example:    C: A932 EXAMINE blurdybloop
               S: * 17 EXISTS
               S: * 2 RECENT
               S: * OK [UNSEEN 8] Message 8 is first unseen
               S: * OK [UIDVALIDITY 3857529045] UIDs valid
               S: * OK [UIDNEXT 4392] Predicted next UID
               S: * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft)
               S: * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS ()] No permanent flags permitted
               S: A932 OK [READ-ONLY] EXAMINE completed

It seems to be a 'dovecot' server. There is also reason to asume that it
is a fairly recent version.

dovecot server should be fine. But the administrators could still prohibit things for reasons best known to themselves!


Wouldn't the lack of that capability show in gnus being unable to set
the mark in the first place?

Good question. I will defer that to people that knows gnus better than I do.

Cheers,
Uday
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