I'm new here, but I'll just jump right in.
I've been using Dovecot with Fedora for a bit with the default mbox
format. I recently transitioned to the Maildir format since some users
were getting mailboxes in excess of 1GB in size, which made expunging
and flagging no easy task.
Anyway, it appears now with Maildir, that customflags are "added"
instead of "replaced". I.E. in Thunderbird or Mozilla, if I set a
message label of 5 (Later), and then change it to 3 (Personal), all's
fine. However, if I switch it back to Later, or attempt to remove it,
the flags are not removed. When I examine the flags on the filename, I
see something like :2,FSag. If I attempt to change to additional labels
and/or flag the message, I'll end up with aefg on the same message.
Unfortunately only the first flag is accepted, and Moz/Tbird keeps label
5 as "a" was "read" delivered first. If I mark label as
none, the flags
remain, meaning I have to manually rename the file to remove the flags.
This wasn't a problem using the mbox format, since the flags were stored
in the file itself.
Is this something broken in how the reader is requesting or is it a
fault in the d?mon itself not removing old customflags before adding
new? I suspect something inside src/lib-index/maildir/maildir-index.c
Also of note, Evolution can seem to remove them, but only does so upon exit.
I've reproduced it in 0.99.10-6 (fedora core 1) and 0.99.10.4-1 (fedora
devel) versions. I filed a Bugzilla report at bugzilla.redhat.com under
114230 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=114230).
-Rick
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