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Erik Christiansen
dvalin at internode.on.net
Sat Dec 15 06:01:02 UTC 2018
On 13.12.18 13:05, Kurt Hackenberg wrote:
>
> You may want to preserve message attributes -- things like, this message has
> been read, this message has been replied to, this message has been flagged,
> this message has been assigned the keyword "blorgh". Mail delivery agents,
> including procmail, are likely to drop that information.
Hmmm ... can any of that actually be true? Let's check. Mutt makes flag
and read status persistent through added headers such as:
Status: RO
X-Status: F
Is it in reality even remotely "likely" that any LDA contains code to
search out those headers and delete them in transit? (Please feel free
to post any code snippets found.)
The assertion also seems to ignore that mutt inserts those headers
_after_ the LDA has delivered the messages, so there is normally no
possible opportunity for the claimed LDA header removal - is there?
As for "blorgh", if you refer to e.g. colour keywords, then mutt assigns
colours on regexes evaluated at the time of display. There is no
connection between that and any LDA run some time beforehand.
So, is there anything factual in the assertion?
Erik
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