[Dovecot] Permanent flags not announced and public mailbox with per-user index

[Julien Danjou]

Hi,

I've a set of public mailboxes that all users can access.
The index is stored per user, so each user can mark the message as read
for themselves.

This is with dovecot 1.2.10.

However, when selecting the mailbox, system flags are not announced as
permanent but only as session flags:

3619 SELECT "public.Admin"
* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS ()] Read-only mailbox.
* 324 EXISTS
* 0 RECENT
* OK [UNSEEN 171] First unseen.
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 1254326934] UIDs valid
* OK [UIDNEXT 1102] Predicted next UID
* OK [HIGHESTMODSEQ 1] Highest
3445 OK [READ-ONLY] Select completed.

I think (reading the RFC, but I bet you know it better than me) that
FLAGS should also been set in PERMANENTFLAGS since they can be
permanent.

The relevant code seems to be in commands-util.c (dovecot 1.2.11):

void client_send_mailbox_flags(struct client *client, bool selecting)
{
        […]
	if (mailbox_is_readonly(client->mailbox)) {
		client_send_line(client, "* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS ()] "
				 "Read-only mailbox.");
	} else {
          […]
	}
}

Even if it's true that the Maildir is read-only, it's still possible to
store \Seen permanently.

Am I getting things wrong, or is this a bug?

If I'm correct, a simple fix MAY be not to send the PERMANENTFLAGS at
all since the RFC says:

    OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (<list of flags>)]
                     A list of message flags that the client can change
                     permanently.  If this is missing, the client should
                     assume that all flags can be changed permanently.

Thanks,
-- 
Julien Danjou
// ᐰ <julien at danjou.info>   http://julien.danjou.info
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