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-rw-r--r--archivemail.sgml12
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>