Re: [sup-talk] current state of synching upstream?

[Tero Tilus <tero@tilus.net>]

Rich Lane, 2010-04-12 03:57:
> Sup will automatically detect changes to the Seen flag in the
> maildir and update the message's labels.

What about Trashed, Draft and Flagged?  They have obvious counterparts
in Sup labels too.

> I haven't decided what to do about the other direction. Historically
> Sup has never modified mail sources, but changing flags in a maildir
> is safe enough that I might implement it.

For what I know maildir was designed to handle delivery, deletion and
flag changes "safely" (no mail content corruption) even without
locking.

Updating message status upstream is a major point for multi-agent
users.  And I have got the impression that there are quire a few of
them already.

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