Re: why does WL download entire messages just to set a flag?

> So I use Wanderlust with IMAP, and I use "flags" on messages quite a lot.
> 
> However I've recently become much more aware of the fact that WL will
> download the entire message just to apply a flag to it.  (Probably I
> notice this more because some of the junk messages I still recieve seem
> to be growing larger in recent years, and I flag junk with a "Junk"
> flag.)

Global flagged message is fetched and stored in internal folder.  For
example, you can see messages with important flag via
"'flag/important" folder even when offline or original message is
deleted.

> So, is there any easy way to stop it from downloading just to set flags?

Probably no.  Modification of Wanderlust would be required.

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Kazuhiro Ito