Re: mailbox_save_attributes

[Harald Meland]

[Alain Magloire]

> This has the amusing effect that if I send you mail with a bogus status
> field like "Status: d", the message will be deleted when you quit
> .. automatic removal 8-).
> I've seen this with the C-client(Pine, imap4d, pop3d), IIRC they use
> "X-Status:".
> 
> I guess this is another reason, for imap4d and pop3d servers to strip away
> some headers when sending emails, and the send when doing mailbox_append().
> Candidates for stripping:
>       Content-Length
>       Status
>       X-Status
> 
> Do remember sparky not being a big fan of header stripping.

I think I posted a message here quite some time back about the
problems of storing message meta-data as part of the message, and
suggesting that maybe storing message-data in a separate file would be
better (both speed-wise and to avoid corruption with near-full mail
disks).

Unfortunately, I haven't had time to follow the evolution of the
actual code, but still thought I'd mention this once more...

Cheers,
-- 
Harald