imap kewords (custom flags)

[Jochen Schröder]

Hi all,

I've ported the patches from Erik Quaeghebeur to recent offlineimap.

You can find the code here:
https://github.com/cycomanic/offlineimap

I needed to make some small corrections and it seems like the way flags 
are stored in the cache has changed between then and now (or Erik's 
patches were not correct), I therefore needed to change the format of 
the localfile or sqlite cache, it now saves flags as ; separated list. 
This means however that you probably run into trouble if you use this 
with an existing cache file.
I've done some limited testing and everything seems to be working ok, 
however, consider this alpha status and do not use with important email.

Cheers
Jochen

On 01/03/14 14:31, chris coleman wrote:
> Agreed!  It's essential for this type of feature- the user's own custom
> flags implemented as imap keywords- to respect the privacy of the user-
> none of the user's labels should ever be visible to others involved in
> email conversations.
>
>
>
> On Friday, February 28, 2014 10:23 PM, Jochen Schröder
> <cycomanic at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if there is a plan to add support for imap keywords
> (custom flags), similar to gmail labels. I saw that there were some
> patches fromErik Quaeghebeur about a year ago:
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/offlineimap-project/2013-March/004567.html
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/offlineimap-project/2013-March/004569.html
>
> But after some discussion nothing happened. I'm willing to do the work
> of bringing those patches up to speed, but if there are reasons why they
> were never accepted in the first place so I don't waste my time.
>
> As a side note, I think the approach of storing keywords in xattr of the
> files is much better than the approach of adjusting the mail headers
> (like proposed somewhere else). The problem of adding the keywords to
> the mail is that they can leak, i.e. if I label all my bosses emails as
> "idiot" but reply or forward one of the emails, that label is contained
> in the mail and can be seen by my boss.
>
> Cheers
> Jochen
>
>
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