mail::account::updateFolderIndexFlags
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## Name

mail::account::updateFolderIndexFlags — Update status of multiple messages

## Synopsis

#include <libmail/mail.H>
class myCallback : public mail::callback {
public:
void success(std::string msg);
void fail(std::string msg);
};

mail::account *account;

`account->updateFolderIndexFlags(` | const std::vector<size_t> msgList,
| bool doFlip,
| bool enableDisable,
| const messageInfo &msgInfo,
| myCallback &callback`)`;

## USAGE

This is a version of mail::account::saveFolderIndexInfo(3x) that updates the status of multiple messages with one request.

`msgList` specifies a list of messages. Messages are numbered starting with message #0 and up to one less than mail::account::getFolderIndexSize(3x)() (when `mail::account::getFolderIndexSize` returns 6, the messages are numbered 0 through 5). Only the messages that appear in `msgList` are processed by this request.

`msgInfo` selects which message status flags should be updated in every message. See mail::account::getFolderIndexInfo(3x).

`msgInfo` does NOT specify the new value of the status flags, only which status flags should be updated. For example, setting `msgInfo`.`marked` to true indicates that the messages' `marked` status flag will be set to the value specified by `doFlip` and `enableDisable`.

Setting `doFlip` to `true` "flips" the selected status flags (each message's flag will be set to false if the status flag was originally true, and set to true if the status flag was originalfalse). If `doFlip` is false, then the selected status flags are set to the value of `enableDisable` `enableDisable` is ignored when Setting `doFlip` is true.

## Return Codes

The application must wait until `callback`'s `success` or `fail` method is invoked. The `success` method is invoked when this request is succesfully processed. The `fail` method is invoked if this request cannot be processed. The application must not destroy `callback` until either the `success` or `fail` method is invoked.

### Note

`callback`'s `fail` method may be invoked even after other callback methods were invoked. This indicates that the request was partially completed before the error was encountered.

### Note

The application is notified about when a message's status changes by by invoking the `messageChanged` callback method of the currently opened folder's mail::folderCallback object. Depending on the mail server, the `messageChanged` method may be invoked as part of processing this request, or some time later after this request is completed, and `callback`'s `success` method was invoked.

### Note

Multiple applications may have the same account and folder opened at the same time. It is possible that a message referenced by this request was already deleted by another application. Depending on the underlying server implementation this will result in either a failed request, invoking `callback.fail`, or the request completing (`callback.success` invoked) but without invoking any callback function that refer to the message.

## SEE ALSO

mail::account::saveFolderIndexInfo(3x), mail::account::getFolderIndexInfo(3x).

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