[Dovecot] Incorrect response when opening read-only mailboxes with per-user flags?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Mar 27 22:23:39 EET 2013


On 27.3.2013, at 22.16, Guido Berhoerster <guido+dovecot.org at berhoerster.name> wrote:

> * Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> [2013-03-27 20:27]:
>> On 27.3.2013, at 13.41, Guido Berhoerster <guido+dovecot.org at berhoerster.name> wrote:
>> 
>>> After some debugging on the protocol level I've finally found the
>>> problem with per-user seen flags in read-only mailboxes. Dovecot
>>> actually does allow storing the seen flag on messages but AFAICS
>>> it does not communicate that correctly to clients, this is what
>>> its response to selecting a read-only mailbox with "lrs" ACL in
>>> effect for the logged in user looks like:
>>> 
>>> 2 SELECT "Public/Test"
>> ..
>>> 2 OK [READ-ONLY] Select completed.
>>> 
>>> Shouldn't PERMANENTFLAGS contain \Seen here if per-user seen
>>> flags are enable and should it even be tagged READ-ONLY at all in
>>> this case? At least clients such as Python imaplib, IMAPClient,
>>> or Roundcube will open such mailboxes with EXAMINE and thus do
>>> not allow the modification of flags.
>> 
>> Are you still testing on v2.0? It could be a bug in it.
> 
> Yes, this is 2.0.9 from RHEL6.

I remember fixing this bug. There's a very good chance that it would simply work with v2.1.



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