Re: Upload of new mail via IMAP

Hi,

On Mon, Sep 09, 2024 at 11:41:11PM +0200, Daniel Stenberg via curl-users wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Sep 2024, Nicolas George via curl-users wrote:
> 
> > Can I submit a feature wish to have an option to choose the presence or
> > absence of this “(\\Seen)” flag?
> 
> What would you say the ideal way would be to set such an option on the
> command line? Assuming we keep the current way the default for backwards
> compatibility.

Non-public reply (since I am currently on absence leave, and
this traffic was "accidentally" seen due to
having turned up within my regular full inbox activity, and
I would wish to
minimize any "further" publicly visible activity during this time).



Since this particular processing handling [result] appears to
simply be induced by
the imaps://-type-specific URL (yet otherwise seems to be
some fully generic "upload" handling),
one possibly *shouldn't* newly add
a woefully IMAP-specific cmdline option for
this "mark as new" wish/request, but rather
have a *generically* worded option to
be able to
have *any* "generic" upload-type activity end up as
"flagged as new"?

And one could perhaps even try to
have this functionality provided more generically e.g. via
an even more common naming such as
--tweak_upload=flag_new (i.e.,
support even further flag bits besides "flag_new", eventually). *)
But not sure whether being this massively "generic" is
useful or even desirable (perhaps being more specific would allow for
much more precise since specific failure handling?).

*) naming ideas: "tweak_upload" / "upload_tweak" / "attr[s]_upload" / "upload_attr[s]" / ...


Thanks a ton for all your work!

Andreas Mohr
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