511590 - gloda should expose message replied and forwarded flags

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Database, enhancement)

Description

[Andrew Sutherland [:asuth] (he/him)]

I am doing this as part of bug 474711 and logging a separate bug so the feature shows up in the fixed list.

Gloda will now expose "repliedTo" and "forwarded" boolean attributes indicating whether the message is known to have been replied to and forwarded, respectively.

Like the read/unread status, these will not be stored on the message row itself.  Likewise, they will be stored and indexed regardless of what the value is.  I remain somewhat dubious about this strategy, but without a more clever query engine, it's the only way to get correct results under all circumstances.

Comment 1

[Andrew Sutherland [:asuth] (he/him)]

Bug 474711 has landed with this fix.

Comment 2

[Jens Müller (:tessarakt)]

What does "is known to" mean?

Comment 3

[Andrew Sutherland [:asuth] (he/him)]

In this case, "is known to" means that the flag bits on the message indicate that the message has been replied to or forwarded.  These bits get set by Thunderbird on reply/forward and are propagated to/from IMAP keywords as well.  However, we perform no logical deduction based on other messages we have seen.

This is only likely to be an issue in situations where you have multiple copies of messages or reply to a message using another e-mail client that is either not hooked in to your IMAP setup or is bad about setting flags.