In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, also sprach Ken
Hornstein:
>>> I don't think they're rich enough to
>>> emulate everything that annotations give you.
>>
>>Because you can't add multiple ones per message, or because they're of a
>>fixed length, or...?
>
>The IMAP specification treats them as a fairly scarce resource.
>I haven't done a survey, but IMAP servers aren't required to let
>you create new ones not on the "approved" tag list. I think you
>can have as many as you want, but I'm not sure what the limits
>w.r.t. tags are (they're really supposed to be boolean things).
What provision in RFC 2060 treats flags as a scarce resource? I missed that
in my reading.
I know of no IMAP server in common use which does not support arbitrary
flags. The issue is which PERMANENTFLAGS they support; I'm not sure of the
answer to that question.
One can get all the flags associated with messages in a particular mailbox,
so one could easily get all existing sequences for that mailbox; see the
SELECT and EXAMINE commands in the RFC (6.3.1 and 6.3.2 respectively). The
annoying thing is that the SEARCH command (6.4.4) does not allow searching
by flag, so getting the contents of a sequence is a pain.
JCR
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