dovecot - Jun 2012 - Maildir Seen Flags not heeded when dovecot-shared present

Hi,

After many hours of searching (!) and lots of testing procmail scripts, I found
the explanation I was looking for -- something you explained at
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2008-July/032551.html

That explains it.

Thing is, though, every time I've seen shared mailboxes -- really shared by
multiple staff or not -- the preference is in fact for the shared behaviours to
also "share" the Seen flags. Typically, someone doesn't want to
read an email that someone else has already picked up and started dealing with
or responded to. (They'll file it in due course, but the Seen flag is the
first indicator that someone's opened and started to deal with it.)

Hacking source code and branching and whatnot isn't easy or done lightly,
but I wondered if anything else had come to light in recent years about this
issue.

I'd be as happy getting my procmail script to tell Dovecot to update the
index based on the flag, but I'm pretty sure that's not possible :)

Any ideas greatly appreciated, thanks.

~ James.

On 26.6.2012, at 21.34, J E Lyon wrote:
> After many hours of searching (!) and lots of testing procmail scripts, I
found the explanation I was looking for -- something you explained at
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2008-July/032551.html
> 
> That explains it.
> 
> Thing is, though, every time I've seen shared mailboxes -- really
shared by multiple staff or not -- the preference is in fact for the shared
behaviours to also "share" the Seen flags. Typically, someone
doesn't want to read an email that someone else has already picked up and
started dealing with or responded to. (They'll file it in due course, but
the Seen flag is the first indicator that someone's opened and started to
deal with it.)
> 
> Hacking source code and branching and whatnot isn't easy or done
lightly, but I wondered if anything else had come to light in recent years about
this issue.
So you don't want shared seen flags? You can simply not create
dovecot-shared file nowadays. It's not necessary. The only other purpose for
it was as the template for file permissions, but those are nowadays taken from
the maildir itself: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes/Permissions