[Dovecot] [PATCH] Re: Do not update status on imap connections

[Adrian Reber]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 04:39:33PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 09:24 +0100, Adrian Reber wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 08:28:20PM +0100, Adrian Reber wrote:
> > > Does an option like "pop3_no_flag_updates = yes" also exist for imap?
> > > Is it maybe planned? Or should I just provide a patch?
> > 
> > Attached is a patch which adds the config option "imap_no_flag_updates".
> > 
> > The reason I am interested in this feature is that I do not want
> > "Status: O" added to all my new mails by the IMAP server, because if I
> > access the mailbox directly all my new mails are "Old" and I would like
> > them to stay "New".
> > 
> > In the patch I just copied all the parts "pop3_no_flag_updates" touches
> > to the corresponding imap parts. I hope I have not messed it up too much.
> 
> The patch looks ok otherwise, except using it will cause your server to
> violate IMAP RFC because \Recent flags aren't dropped then. So I'm not
> going to add this to standard Dovecot distribution.
> 
> An alternative to patching would be for you to create a plugin that
> hooks into mail_storage.mailbox_open() and adds the
> MAILBOX_OPEN_READONLY flag before calling super.mailbox_open(). See e.g.
> mail_log plugin for an example.

Ah, okay. I assume it is possible to develop a plugin which is
completely outside of the main source tree and just uses the public
interfaces. Right?

		Adrian