Re: [Classpathx-javamail] Fwd: \Recent flag in IMAP

[Chris Burdess]

Robert Mitchell wrote:
> One further note:  It seems to me that it would be more appropriate to
> use the +FLAGS and -FLAGS items to do the updates, rather than trying 
> to
> use FLAGS and passing all of the resulting flags.  Among other things,
> this would (at least in my mind) give more reasonable results if
> multiple clients were updating the flags at the same time.

That seems fair - I've applied a patch which implements this, and adds 
a simple test for it: please let me know if you have any problems with 
it.

> > > > Robert Mitchell 4/18/2005 3:32:13 PM >>>
>
> If I read in a message via IMAP that has its \Recent flag set, and then
> try to change other flags via Message.setFlags (or Message.setFlag), I
> get a MessagingException which complains about trying to set the 
> \Recent
> flag.  The problem appears to be that after merging in the new flag
> values, gnu.mail.profiders.imap.IMAPMessage.setFlags does not ignore 
> the
> \Recent flag when sending the updated flags to the IMAP server.


> Note that according to the IMAP specification, the \Recent flag is not
> a legal argument to the STORE or APPEND commands (section 2.3.2 of RFC
> 3501).

This flag will now not be stored.
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Chris Burdess