For the past week I've been writing an application to automate the creation of rulesets for my company, which has for the most part gone very well using maildrop. Unfortunately, I have run into a stumbling block which I haven't been able to resolve, and there do not appear to be any useful discussions in the list that I managed to find.

I am trying to use the KEYWORDS variable to set messages as seen/read, and to a lesser extend to have a method to automatically delete them. From reading the manpages for maildropfilter, and imapd, it seems that setting the KEYWORDS variable such as: KEYWORDS="\Seen" or KEYWORDS="\Deleted"

and then using a 'to' or 'cc' command should take care of the problem. Unfortunately, this has not worked successfully yet (in thunderbird the messages do not change, and nothing appears in the courierimapkeywords directory). I've tested the imap server and it accepts the commands, as documented in the imapd manpage. I've tried the latest version of maildrop, although the server came installed with 1.6.3 (yes, very old) and both have the same result. I've tried escaping the backslash, different cap styles, quotes/no quotes... etc... to no avail. I've also tried using different keywords, and while they work through a telnet session to the imap server, they have not worked using the KEYWORDS variable in maildrop.

Could someone on the list point out what stupid thing I'm missing, because I'm truely dumbfounded at this point?