Tickets :: [#4867] Change Important flag to Flag for followup

Summary	Change Important flag to Flag for followup
Queue	IMP
Queue Version	HEAD
Type	Enhancement
State	Resolved
Priority	1. Low
Owners
Requester	Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck (at) horde (dot) org>
Created	01/11/2007 (540 days ago)
Due
Updated	05/12/2008 (53 days ago)
Assigned
Resolved	02/16/2007 (504 days ago)
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Patch	No

05/12/2008	jukka (dot) huhta (at) helsinki (dot) fi	Comment #4	Reply to this comment
Changing the meaning of IMAP \FLAGGED flag was not a good idea. We have 50000 users that are used to the existing semantics. Almost all MUAs are rendering the flag as Important, and it shouldn't be changed too lightly. Furthermore, because someone has set the flag manually, the MUA shouldn't clear it. It seems like a bug to me.

02/16/2007	Michael Slusarz	Comment #3 State ⇒ Resolved	Reply to this comment
Makes sense to me. Made the necessary changes in HEAD. http://lists.horde.org/archives/cvs/Week-of-Mon-20070212/065399.html

01/14/2007	ekg2002 (at) columbia (dot) edu	Comment #2	Reply to this comment
I approve because this is how I use the flagged marker. I always unset the flag after a reply, and while I assume it's how everyone does it, doing so automatically deviates from other mail client behavior and might cause confusion. FWIW - Unless I knew in advance IMP would unset the flag, I certainly would be when I went into my Flagged messages folder.

01/11/2007	Chuck Hagenbuch	Comment #1 Priority ⇒ 1. Low State ⇒ Accepted Summary ⇒ Change Important flag to Flag for followup Type ⇒ Enhancement Queue ⇒ IMP	Reply to this comment
Email thread between Chuck and Jan: Zitat von Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck@horde.org>: [Hide Quoted Text] I'd like to change the Important flag (which is really \\FLAGGED in IMAP) in IMP to "flag for followup" (and removing the flag would be "clear flag" or similar). DIMP already does this, and so do a lot of other programs. One other possibility would be to automatically clear the flag on reply - I'm not sure if that's standard practice though. Any objections? My first reaction was: yes, let the users decide what the flag means to them. But then I thought how I am actually using the flag, and it's exactly like in your proposal and I always have to remove the flag manually when replying. Or a bit shorter: no.