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| author | Nikolaus Schulz <microschulz@web.de> | 2007-11-02 19:21:10 +0000 |
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| committer | Nikolaus Schulz <microschulz@web.de> | 2007-11-02 19:21:10 +0000 |
| commit | dfec62850e88efad255fe450378b39dc6efd848a (patch) | |
| tree | 1441cffc094b73736e5896fa6a442f551fdf72ba | |
| parent | 3ee105d76612687b12f2a0e1cce5cfdc90e38a5f (diff) | |
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Updated manpage: document that archivemail will implicitly unset the \Recent
message flag of all messages in an IMAP folder.
| -rw-r--r-- | archivemail.1 | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | archivemail.sgml | 12 |
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/archivemail.1 b/archivemail.1 index 75194cd..17ed809 100644 --- a/archivemail.1 +++ b/archivemail.1 @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ .\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/comp/docbook2X/> .\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, .\" etc. to Steve Cheng <steve@ggi-project.org>. -.TH "ARCHIVEMAIL" "1" "24 October 2007" "SP" "" +.TH "ARCHIVEMAIL" "1" "02 November 2007" "SP" "" .SH NAME archivemail \- archive and compress your old email @@ -256,6 +256,14 @@ will use the last-modified file timestamp on \fBMH\fR and .PP \fBarchivemail\fR will refuse to operate on mailboxes that are symbolic links or create tempfiles or archives in world-writable directories. +.SS "IMAP" +.PP +When \fBarchivemail\fR processes an \fBIMAP\fR folder, all messages +in that folder will have their \\Recent flag unset, and they will +probably not show up as 'new' in your user agent later on. +There is no way around this, it's just how \fBIMAP\fR works. +This does not apply, however, if you run \fBarchivemail\fR with the options +\fB--dry-run\fR or \fB--copy\fR\&. .SS "IMAP URLS" .PP \fBarchivemail\fR\&'s \fBIMAP\fR URL parser was written diff --git a/archivemail.sgml b/archivemail.sgml index 3ef7fac..8efef1a 100644 --- a/archivemail.sgml +++ b/archivemail.sgml @@ -400,7 +400,16 @@ links or create tempfiles or archives in world-writable directories. </Para> <RefSect2> -<Title><acronym/IMAP/ <acronym/URL/s</Title> +<Title><acronym/IMAP/</Title> +<Para> +When <command/archivemail/ processes an <application/IMAP/ folder, all messages +in that folder will have their <literal/\Recent/ flag unset, and they will +probably not show up as 'new' in your user agent later on. +There is no way around this, it's just how <application/IMAP/ works. +This does not apply, however, if you run <command/archivemail/ with the options +<option/--dry-run/ or <option/--copy/. +</Para> +<RefSect3><Title><acronym/IMAP/ <acronym/URLs/</Title> <Para> <command/archivemail/'s <application/IMAP/ <acronym/URL/ parser was written with the <acronym>RFC</acronym> 2882 (<citetitle>Internet Message @@ -417,6 +426,7 @@ username or password. Note that quoting only a substring will not work, and be aware that your shell will probably remove unprotected quotes or backslashes. </Para> +</RefSect3> </RefSect2> </RefSect1> |