5. Processing marks off-line

An IMAP user may want to cache messages in folder A and go out. Then he may want to put the ‘o’ and/or ‘D’ marks, and process the marks off-line. In this story, these jobs should be done in his IMAP server after connecting the Internet.

If a message in folder A is moved to folder B with IMAP, the cached message in folder A usually must be deleted and a corresponding message in folder B must be retrieved from his IMAP server again. This is because information embedded in a cached message in folder A is valid only in folder A.

Suppose you refile a message in folder A to folder B off-line. It is very inconvenient for you to retrieve a corresponding message in folder B from your IMAP server , in order to read it, after refile jobs are done online. You may want to read the messages refiled to folder B by just going to the folder B, without retrieval form the IMAP server.

Mew implements delayed jobs processing and viewing refiled messages without retrieval. If you want to process marks off-line, type ‘lx’. ‘lx’ carries out the following jobs.

1. Deleting messages marked with ‘o’ and/or ‘D’ from folder A.
2. Queuing these jobs in %queue.
3. Moving messages marked with ‘o’ to folder B and marking them invalid.

'invalid' means that you can read it but you cannot put the ‘o’/‘D’ mark on it. Invalid messages are marked with ‘#’. When you go to folder B by typing ‘g’, a list of invalid messages is displayed automatically.

If you want to let your IMAP server process jobs in %queue after you get back online, type ‘C-cC-c’ in %queue.

Typing ‘s’ in folder B after jobs in %queue are done in your IMAP server results in deletion of invalid messages and caching valid messages.

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