Re: An imapflags question

Dave Cridland wrote:

> On Wed Sep 14 17:58:48 2005, Aaron Stone wrote:
>
> > Several places in the imapflags draft, there are flags such as this one,
> > starting with a $ rather than \\
> >
> >            addflag "MyFlags" ["\\Answered", "$MDNSent"];
> >
> > I presume that this is not a variable, but actually a flag that begins
> > with $. Where in the specs did those come from? Is this the "keywords"
> > type flag that RFC 3501 allows?
> >
> > If it is the "keywords" type flags, I think it would it be prudent to
> > make reference to that aspect of RFC 3501.
>
> It does state that "Setflag is used for setting [IMAP] flags or 
> keywords."
> This may not be clear enough, however, I usually read "flags" as 
> "system flags or keywords" in any case. The only distinctions in IMAP 
> itself that springs to mind is that system flags can affect, or be 
> affected by, the IMAP server (\Seen, \Deleted, \Recent - but not 
> \Answered, \Flagged or \Draft) and that system flags have shorthand 
> search criteria (ANSWERED, UNSEEN, etc). Otherwise, they behave 
> identically.
Correct.

> The $ prefix is not specified in any RFC, as far as I'm aware, and is 
> purely a convention for standard keywords.
There was a discussion about documenting this convention, but there is 
no document yet.