[Kde-pim] Review Request: Convert IMAP flags to internal Akonadi flags in the IMAP resource.

[Leo Franchi]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Carsten Burghardt
<carsten at cburghardt.com> wrote:
> Zitat von Leo Franchi <lfranchi at kde.org>:
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>> Review request for KDE PIM and Kevin Ottens.
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>> Summary
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>> As a result of the recent Akonadi server changes that have made the
>> akonadi server case-sensitive for flags, the decision was made to
>> store flags as all-uppercase. However, the flags from imap servers
>> are not upper-cased, they are simply capitalized. This results in
>> collection statistics always being incorrect (listing all items as
>> unread).
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>> After discussion with Tobias, a solution was proposed to do a
>> mapping of KImap flags <--> Akonadi flags in the imap resource, as
>> that is the interface between KImap and Akonadi. For now this just
>> includes 4 standard imap server flags. I don't know if this is the
>> best way to do this, but figured i'd throw it out there and start a
>> discussion.
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>>  Comments are appreciated :)
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> I have to admit I did not have a look at your patch but I noticed that
> this might conflict with custom flags (tags). So I assume you are not
> planning to support those in future? Thunderbird does as far as I know.

This should not conflict with custom tags. It only translates tags
that it knows about, and passes through any tags that are not defined.

leo


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