[Dovecot] Public Namespace and ACLs with pure virtual users

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 13:53 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 6/3/2007 Timo Sirainen (tss at iki.fi) wrote:
> > ACL plugin shouldn't have anything to do with that decision. The
> > \Seen flag is stored privately if you have created dovecot-shared
> > file to the maildir. There isn't yet support for separate shared and
> > private flags (and I'm not sure if there ever will be).
> 
> Yikes!
> 
> Or maybe I musunderstood...
> 
> I have a real need to have (at least) one shared folder (inbound faxes) 
> with shared \Seen flags - so the 5 people assigned to monitor it will 
> know when someone else has seen/forwarded a new fax - and private \Seen 
> flags on other shared maildirs (like distribution lists, etc)...
> 
> Are you saying this may never be possible?

No, not never. I'll probably add private_flags setting to dovecot-shared
file or something.

But if you use a single UID for all users you can already do this by not
adding dovecot-shared file for mailboxes where you don't want private
\Seen flags.

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