From dfec62850e88efad255fe450378b39dc6efd848a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nikolaus Schulz Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 19:21:10 +0000 Subject: Updated manpage: document that archivemail will implicitly unset the \Recent message flag of all messages in an IMAP folder. --- archivemail.1 | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'archivemail.1') diff --git a/archivemail.1 b/archivemail.1 index 75194cd..17ed809 100644 --- a/archivemail.1 +++ b/archivemail.1 @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ .\" .\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, .\" etc. to Steve Cheng . -.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 -- cgit v1.2.3