Re: Re: I-D ACTION:draft-neystadt-imap-status-counters-00. txt

"Vaudreuil, Greg M (Greg)" <[email protected]>
> Is there any objection to a new flag with explicit semantics of importance?
> The meaning of \flagged is private between a client and it's store.  The
> importance is a sender-indicated message attribute, not a recipient
> indication of a particular level of interest or importance they may wish to
> recall between sessions. We need a flag that is standardized by convention
> between a message deposit process that can set this flag and the many
> different clients that would expect the flag to be there if a message is
> tagged as important.

This assumes that current-day clients use \flagged in different ways. Is
that indeed so? Every client I've seen seems to either ignore it or treat
it as a "must look at this message" flag.

--Arnt
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