On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:38:40 -0800, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:22:25 +0000, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:
> > There really should be a definitive list of tags that are special to
> > lib/cli/emacs (like "inbox", "unread", "deleted", ...), or are
> > recommended for specific purposes (like "new" as an intermediate tag
> > before more sophisticated tagging), to avoid prolonged discussions like
> > this.
>
> Just to be clear: the lib doesn't assign any special meaning to any tag
> (as it shouldn't). The cli does, but only in the sense that it creates
> config files that designate certain tags for certain operations by
> default. It's really in emacs where certain tags currently have
> unconfigurable meanings ("inbox").
The lib *does* assign special meaning to the tags it syncs to maildir
flags: draft, flagged, passed, replied, unread. (deleted used to be part
of the list.) The cli does have to request the syncing, but the mapping
is in the lib (flag2tag array in lib/message.cc).
BR,
Jani.