On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:27:59AM +0200, Ilja Booij wrote:
> It also changes all the use of the status field in messages table to
> be through the following #defines:
>
[...]
> #define STATUS_DELETE 2
> #define STATUS_PURGE 3
These are a bit confusing because rather than giving a status they
describe what action is likely to be taken next on the message.
It also doesn't correspond to the dbmail-maintenance documentation, in
which status 3 is described as the DELETE status.
-p purge messages have the DELETE status set
-d set DELETE status for deleted messages
The fact that imap has the concept of expunging messages adds further
confusion.
I suggest changing 2 to DELETED or perhaps EXPUNGED. Status 3 should
also be changed from a verb to an adjective. I can't think of a single
word description, but something along the lines of PENDING_PURGE makes
sense. Personally, I don't see much value to status 3 and would
recommend deleting records in status 2 based on an timestamp field
in the messages table.
xn
