Re: [Evolution-hackers] More on message state

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

$Label[1-5] are the same user-flag names that Thunderbird uses for those
colours

Flag-for-followup is a copy of the Outlook feature and likely cannot be
simply mapped to some "ToDo" flag (never even heard of that flag).

Internally, these are represented in the CamelTag list on the
CamelMessageInfo's.

My suggestion would be to find out how Outlook stores this state info on
an IMAP server and to copy its way of doing it.

Jeff

On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 09:49 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
> After poking around, I discovered that although "follow up" status is
> not preserved on copy, and is not kept on the IMAP server even where it
> exists, the colored labels are preserved on copy and are kept on the
> IMAP server (as $Label1, etc).
> 
> So I think I have a solution to my immediate problem:
> 1) get all messages marked for followup together (e.g., by sorting or
> vfolder).
> 2) select them all
> 3) right click | label | ToDo.
> 4) copy the folder.
> 
> If I look at the folder from different evo clients, they should all show
> the ToDo status (whereas the "FollowUp" status is kept with the client).
> 
> There do seem to more types of message status, and more ways of handling
> them internally, then necessary.  I think the situation is this
> 
> Replied, seen, and other "standard" IMAP status information is kept in a
> bit mask in a single word and stored in the standard IMAP flags.  These
> are copied.
> 
> "Labels" that affect coloring (e.g., To Do) are kept in a special info
> structure, and stored on the IMAP server in custom flags $Label1, 2,
> etc.  (It might be better to use flags with meaningful names, though
> that does increase the risk of clashingn with other uses of those names.
> On the other hand, another app that sets a ToDo flag prbably means the
> same thing as evolution does).  These are copied.
> 
> "Mark for followup" and its attendent substates--I'm not sure how this
> is handled internally, though it may be the string-valued user tags.  It
> is not kept on the IMAP server, and is not copied.
> 
> Ross
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