Re: Red Flag

[Dmitry Alexandrov]

> Using Seamonkey I can set a flag on a message. It appears pictorially as
> a flag if I enable the flag column. This is IMAP. If I go into Gnus and
> look at the same message in the summary articles it appears in purple in
> xterm and it does not go away when read. This is very useful. But I
> don't know how to set the flag in Gnus. Is there a way to do it?

You mean ‘ticks’, I guess, thus ‘gnus-summary-tick-article-forward’.  It is on 
‘!’, ‘u’ and ‘M t’ in default summary mapping table.

> Where are the flags actually stored?

It depends on backend, of course.  With ‘nnimap’ — on IMAP server.

> I am guessing not in the headers, I can't see anything there.

A MUA generally should not modify message (and its headers in particular) at 
all.