[Dovecot] Mail Sync

Timo Sirainen
Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:14:36 -0000

On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 13:40 -0500, Scott Hughes wrote:

> While trying to sync the messages using Thunderbird and a program named
> imapsync, I run into an error stating that the dovecot server does not know
> how to handle messages with the FORWARD flag set.
>
> Is the FORWARD flag some type of non-standard flag or is there something I
> need to do in dovecot to allow for this flag?

FORWARD would be an "IMAP keyword" (aka custom flag). Dovecot supports
keywords. I don't know why imapsync would complain about it.