diff -r 9ad06889a5d1 sys/src/cmd/upas/fs/imap.c
--- a/sys/src/cmd/upas/fs/imap.c	Mon Nov 18 01:06:02 2019 -0800
+++ b/sys/src/cmd/upas/fs/imap.c	Mon Nov 18 19:33:19 2019 -0800
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 	uvlong	uid;
 	ulong	sizes;
 	ulong	dates;
+	ulong	flags;
 } Fetchi;
 
 typedef struct Imap Imap;
@@ -230,26 +231,29 @@
 	"\\Stored",	Fstored,
 };
 
-static void
-parseflags(Message *m, char *s)
+static int
+parseflags(char *s)
 {
 	char *f[10];
-	int i, j, j0, n;
+	int i, j, j0, n, flg;
 
 	n = tokenize(s, f, nelem(f));
 	qsort(f, n, sizeof *f, (int (*)(void*,void*))strcmp);
 	j = 0;
-	for(i = 0; i < n; i++)
+	flg = 0;
+	for(i = 0; i < n; i++){
 		for(j0 = j;; j++){
 			if(j == nelem(ftab)){
 				j = j0;		/* restart search */
 				break;
 			}
-			if(strcmp(f[i], ftab[j].flag) == 0){
-				m->flags |= ftab[j].e;
+			if(cistrcmp(f[i], ftab[j].flag) == 0){
+				flg |= ftab[j].e;
 				break;
 			}
 		}
+	}
+	return flg;
 }
 
 /* "17-Jul-1996 02:44:25 -0700" */
@@ -356,8 +360,13 @@
 			if(imap->nuid < imap->muid)
 				imap->f[imap->nuid].uid = v;
 		}else if(strcmp(f[i], "flags") == 0){
+			print("flags: %s\n", f[i + 1]);
+			l = parseflags(f[i + 1]);
+			idprint(imap, "ids: %d, %d, flags: %s (%lx)\n", imap->nuid, imap->muid, f[i + 1], l);
 			if(m)
-				parseflags(m, f[i + 1]);
+				m->flags = l;
+			if(imap->nuid < imap->muid)
+				imap->f[imap->nuid].flags = l;
 		}else if(strncmp(f[i], "body[]", 6) == 0){
 			s = f[i]+6;
 			o = 0;
@@ -949,6 +958,7 @@
 			m->imapuid = f[i].uid;
 			m->fileid = datesec(imap, i);
 			m->size = f[i].sizes;
+			m->flags = f[i].flags;
 			m->next = *ll;
 			*ll = m;
 			ll = &m->next;