dovecot - Mar 2006 - Per-user "Seen" flags with shared namespace stored as maildir?

Hi all,

I was wondering if the above was possible.  I know that the "seen"
flag is stored in the filename, but was wondering if anyone knew of a way to
separate it out?  I know this would strictly-speaking break maildir
compatibility, but it would be extremely useful for shared folders.

I've been given the task of replacing the (extremely heavily used) shared
folders functionality of our Exchange server and have almost everything working.
I have authentication working against AD, shared folders, per-user
subscriptions, "mail enabled folder" functionality and seem to have
sorted all the other permissions issues I've been having.  Apart from a nice
easy-to-use front end for changing folder permissions this is the last thing I
can think of that I need to look into before I can show this to my boss.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Mark Lidstone
IT Administrator

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On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 16:15 +0000, Mark Lidstone wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was wondering if the above was possible.  I know that the
"seen"
> flag is stored in the filename, but was wondering if anyone knew of a
> way to separate it out?  I know this would strictly-speaking break
> maildir compatibility, but it would be extremely useful for shared
> folders.
The way this worked at one point was by making each user have separate
index file for the mailbox, then keeping the \Seen flag only inside that
index file and ignoring the maildir's seen flag completely. Then I
rewrote the maildir syncing code and this part was dropped out. Probably
wouldn't be too difficult to make it work again.. Yea, looks like it
wasn't. Works now in CVS.


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