Hi Timo,
This feature is one of only two that, if implemented, would make dovecot
'perfect' (for me) as far as feature set goes.
There were a few messages about this subject previously, but I'm
confused - it appears you say one thing, then another... with all of the
changes dovecot has seen recently, can you clarify the status of this
capability?
I am also interested in having this configurable on a per shared folder
basis... I have some folders that I want to force shared 'seen' flags -
ie, if one person marks a message as seen, everyone else will also see
it as seen (this would be for our incoming efaxes), and on another I
want each user to maintain their own 'seen' flags (for company-wide info
messages, etc).
Anyway, first, on 23/03/2006 you replied to someone's question about this:
>> 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.
Timo replies:
> 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.
Here, you said 'it works'... this was in March of 2006.
Then, on Dec 6, you replied to someone else's similar question:
Amardeep wrote:>> Can we change the setting on dovecot so that the Seen mail flag S
>> should be saved where everybody can see that and not in the
>> dovecot.index file
>>
>> As we are facing problems with public folder read/unread mails.
Timo replied:> Usually people want private seen flag with shared folders. I want to
> make this configurable, but I haven't yet much thought how this
> should be done, so for now it's hardcoded.
>
> You can change it by modifying the sources:
>
> src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-storage.c around line 519:
> mbox->private_flags_mask = MAIL_SEEN;
>
> Change MAIL_SEEN to 0.
So, again, just to clarify - it is currently not possible to configure
this on a per shared folder basis?
If not, any idea when you might be able to get around to making this
possible?
There are only two things that - for me - dovecot lacks to make it
'perfect':
1. per-share configurable message flags (mainly 'seen', but if
you're
going to do that might as well make this possible for all of them, no?), and
2. single-instance storage - ie, links for duplicate messages, and for
duplicate message attachments that may have differing body text.
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Best regards,
Charles