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MBOX-Line: From mrc at CAC.Washington.EDU Sun Dec 2 00:11:53 2007
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To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
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From: Mark Crispin <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU>
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Date: Fri Jun 8 12:34:41 2018
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Subject: [Imap-protocol] FLAGS reply
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In-Reply-To: <1196582023.9771.694.camel@hurina>
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References: <1196580950.9771.687.camel@hurina>
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<alpine.OSX.0.99999.0712012341230.9023@pangtzu.panda.com>
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<1196582023.9771.694.camel@hurina>
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Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.0.99999.0712012355240.10935@pangtzu.panda.com>
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On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote:
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> How about when keywords are removed?
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There is no defined mechanism in IMAP to remove keywords. Every time the
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question came up the result was a punt.
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Although it makes sense to send a FLAGS/PERMANENTFLAGS update to remove a
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keyword, I do not recommend doing so for the following reasons:
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(1) It may be a keyword which the user intends to use later. Note that
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only STORE is defined to create keywords, and some servers won't in
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APPEND and COPY.
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(2) Clients probably are totally unprepared to handle keywords vanishing
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in a session (and certainly would be for a keyword that is used in
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an existing message).
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If there's a need to clean up old unused keywords, do so in a new session.
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But you should avoid doing so without a definite need due to reason (1)
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above.
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-- Mark --
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http://panda.com/mrc
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Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
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Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
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