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

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon May 31 15:51:33 EEST 2010


On ma, 2010-05-31 at 13:26 +0200, Julien Danjou wrote:
> > I think the main bug is that maildir is thought to be read-only. IMAP
> > ACL RFC says READ-ONLY shouldn't be returned unless nothing can be
> > changed. Does this help?
> > http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/c2c1639b91ee
> 
> It will not help my mail client (Gnus). 
> 
> It does not care about the READ-ONLY status to store the \Seen flag for
> example, it cares about PERMANENTFLAGS.
> But it seems that is is its right. What do you think ?

Actually a side effect of that change is that it also changes
PERMANENTFLAGS. Dovecot's PERMANENTFLAGS handling is a bit stupid now I
guess. It either has all or nothing.




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