On Sun, 06 Feb 2011, Peter John Hartman wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > > > would this output be compatible with all mbox consumers or only with > > those who expect the Status: line? If the latter, we would probably want > > a command line option to enable this. > > Hi, > > As far as I've been able to tell everyone respects RO in mbox, so I don't > see this as a problem. In any case, having the Status: line there won't > cause problems if an MUA doesn't recognize it. That said, it would be nice > to think of a place to allow the user to easily "map" notmuch tags to > Status: or X-Status: rules, perhaps in the notmuch config file as follows: > > [mbox] > synchronize_flags=true
I would call this differently - perhaps 'export_flags'. In maildir section of config file synchronize_flags has the meaning of bi-directional synchronization and this is only uni-directional. > xstatus_A=replied > xstatus_F=flagged > xstatus_T=draft > #xstatus_D=deleted > status_R=-unread > status_O=unread Is it necessary for this to be configurable? Given the list bellow, it seems it is already defined by the "standard", so users would rarely want different mapping. > Reference: http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/mbox: > Status: R (\Seen) and O (non-\Recent) flags > X-Status: A (\Answered), F (\Flagged), T (\Draft) and D (\Deleted) flags > > (I know that alpine/pine and mutt recognize at least RO, and probably AFTD.) -Michal