[PATCH] Have --format=mbox insert Status:

[Peter John Hartman]

> Hi Peter,
> 
> would this output be compatible with all mbox consumers or only with
> those who expect the Status: line? If the latter, we would probably want
> a command line option to enable this.

Hi,

As far as I've been able to tell everyone respects RO in mbox, so I don't
see this as a problem.  In any case, having the Status: line there won't 
cause problems if an MUA doesn't recognize it.  That said, it would be nice
to think of a place to allow the user to easily "map" notmuch tags to
Status: or X-Status: rules, perhaps in the notmuch config file as follows:

[mbox]
synchronize_flags=true
xstatus_A=replied
xstatus_F=flagged
xstatus_T=draft
#xstatus_D=deleted
status_R=-unread
status_O=unread

Reference: http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/mbox:
  Status: R (\Seen) and O (non-\Recent) flags
  X-Status: A (\Answered), F (\Flagged), T (\Draft) and D (\Deleted) flags

(I know that alpine/pine and mutt recognize at least RO, and probably AFTD.)

Peter

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