[mew-int 3025] Re: Marks and imap

[Diep Pham Van]

I think, Christmas is not a Japanese holiday but nowadat, in Japan, it's a special day.
But I don't any activity of this mailing-list in recent time.
From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche at example.com>
Subject: [mew-int 3024] Marks and imap
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:09:41 +0100 (CET)

> I have a feature request for Christmas this year. The thing is, as I
> am beginning to access my mail (on an IMAP server) not only using mew,
> but also using other mail clients, most notably my iPad and iPhone
> mail clients, I discover that I am not happy about the way mew handles
> the * mark, variously called review and target in the documentation.
> 
> The problem is that this mark is syncronized with the \Flagged flag on
> the imap server, which in turn shows up as a raised flag in my iP*
> devices.
> 
> Now, a flag to flag messages which need further attention is a great
> thing to have. I expect I am not alone in virtually drowning in email,
> and occassionally losing an important message in the deluge because I
> didn't have time to deal with it right away, and then it got lost in
> the clutter.
> 
> The problem is that I use the * mark in Mew a lot, for much more
> casual uses! Such as looking at messages with a common subject with
> the m r keystrokes, or any of a myriad uses of the * mark. But then,
> every time I use the * mark for such purposes, I mess up the \Flagged
> status of messages on the server, rendering this useless.
> 
> Hence my Christmas wish for this year: I want a new mark, whose only
> purpose in life is to synchronize with \Flagged on the imap server.
> And of course I'd like a selection of convenient ways to set and unset
> this mark, including a way to flag all messages with the * mark. The *
> mark should be allowed to overlay the new mark, so that there may be a
> command for unflagging all messages with the * mark on them.
> 
> (I realize that Christmas is not a Japanese holiday, and frankly I
> don't care much for it myself, being a heathen and all. But the winter
> solstice is always worth celebrating. I expect Japan too has some sort
> of celebration at or near the winter solstice?)
> 
> - Harald