Flag Token Explained

This is an explanation of the flags and the way you can refer to them.

"*" - Important, the message has been flagged to be important.
"A" - Answered, the message has probably been answered.
"D" - Deleted, the message must be expunged from the mailbox upon closing it.
"N" - New, you just opened the folder and the message was not in the folder the last time you opened it.
"U" - Unseen, The message has not been read. You opened the folder and the message was there the last time you opened the folder, but you did not read it that time.
"R" - The message has been read. Note that IMAPSTATUS makes a difference between having read the message when it was marked with a "N" or with a "U", in the first case it marks the message with a "R", in the second with a " " (blank space).

The token _FLAG_ is written in the following order:

_FLAGS_ = "*XAD",

Where "X" is one of "N", "U" or "R" (in particular _FLAG_ can never be empty) So for a message that has been read and not deleted, or other flag set, the value of _FLAG_ is "R", if you mark it deleted, its value will be "RD", if you answer to that message its value will be "RAD", if you flag it new, its value will be "UAD", if you now mark it Important, its value will be "*UAD".

I have integrated this patch with the flags patch, in this form one can use your rules to save messages according to the custom flags that you have defined on them. Also, you can flag messages so that they won't be moved from INBOX upon exitin Pine, which is quite handy. These two patches combined are very powerful. If you want to have this two patches integrated contact me.

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