RE: [Evolution] Status=R in mbox

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 21:48, Alexandre Aractingi wrote:
> > Yeah it uses X-Evolution header.  But you can't really
> > create your own, because it also requires the UID to be
> > set properly.
> > How do they get into the Sent folder?
>
> pilot-mailsync just appends the mail in text format at the end of
> ~/evolution/local/Sent/mbox:
>
>       From alex ROISSY Fri Dec 13 18:29:11 2002 +0100
>       Status: R
>       X-Status:
>       X-Keywords:
>       From: Alexandre Aractingi <aaractingi libertysurf fr>
>       To: aaractingi libertysurf fr
>       Subject: Test
>       X-Mailer: pilot-mailsync-0.7.1
>       Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>       Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 18:29:11 +0100 (CET)
>       X-Evolution: 0000107e-0010  #### This line gets added when I open Evo
>
>       This is the body
>
>
> So it won't be possible to get a UID for pilot-mailsync to use it? And what
> if pilot-mailsync creates a X-Evolution header of its own?

It could but is has to be careful that it doesn't create duplicates. 
(on the other hand, they just get fixed anyway so it might not be bad).

The header (in this case) is just an 8 digit hexadeximal uid, plus 4
digit hexadecimal flags field.  I think 'seen' is bit 4 from memory.
(i.e. 0x0010).

> (anyway, the sending works very nice, and the mails get copied in the Sent
> folder, which is what I need, so I'm happy, even if it shows as 'unread'
> :-))
> Thanks,
> Alex

BTW you shouldn't really be copying directly to sent mailbox, not
without locking anyway.  What you might want to consider is spooling the
files to a separate mailbox, and using that in evolution as a source
account for 'get mail', with a filter to copy it to sent.  Well, either
that, or make pilot-mailsync properly lock the mailbox (if it doesn't?).