[Dovecot] dovecot-shared

[Frank Cusack]

On December 29, 2009 4:49:56 PM -0500 Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 03:03 -0500, Frank Cusack wrote:
>> On December 29, 2009 1:59:53 AM -0500 Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>> > Yeah, that's been in todo for a while. I'd probably make dovecot-shared
>> > file have options:
>>
>> I was just thinking today it would be nice to have per-USER private or
>> shared.  So e.g. all users by default might share \Seen \Answered but
>> some admin users have private \Seen, and don't have to worry about
>> resetting the \Seen flag when investigating for problems.
>
> Are you still talking about shared mailboxes, or also users' private
> mailboxes?

shared (public) mailboxes.

>> This can be done already in a limited fashion with the 's' ACL (remove
>> it for said admin users in the case above), but perhaps annoying if
>> your mail client presents an error dialog when it fails to set the
>> \Seen flag.
>
> I'm too lazy to verify now, but I think Dovecot sends an OK reply even
> if it doesn't have permissions to update flags, exactly because a NO
> reply would cause clients to show annoying popups.

it probably does, seeing how my mail client doesn't complain.

-frank