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authorNikolaus Schulz <microschulz@web.de>2007-11-02 19:21:10 +0000
committerNikolaus Schulz <microschulz@web.de>2007-11-02 19:21:10 +0000
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Updated manpage: document that archivemail will implicitly unset the \Recent
message flag of all messages in an IMAP folder.
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@@ -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>