[mew-int 3026] Re: Marks and imap

[Jeffrey M Roth]

Hi All - I agree that a new mark sounds like it would be a useful
feature.

Along these lines of accessing the same mailbox from different
computers, do people have experience using Mew on multiple, separate
platforms to read the same email account?

It seems that Mew locally stores messages (sent and received), so I am
wondering how Mew might perform if you run it from different computers.

For example, say you have Mew running on your office computer and Mew on
your home computer, both reading your work email.  Would one just have
to set the sent-message folder to reside on the server?  How might one also
make the AddrBook file a shared resource?

Thanks!
Jeff

From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche at example.com>
To: "mew-int at example.com" <mew-int at example.com>
Cc: 
Subject: [mew-int 3024] Marks and imap
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 12:09:41 -0500
Message-ID: <20111204.180941.1339918607441856091.hanche at example.com>

> 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