[Dovecot] dovecot-shared

[Timo Sirainen]

On 28.12.2009, at 2.08, Frank Cusack wrote:

> I'm confused about dovecot-shared.
> 
> If the file exists, \SEEN flags are NOT shared?

Right.

> So if dovecot-shared exists, flags are actually private.  The doc
> seems clear on this (albeit not worded very well).  I only question it
> because intuitively you would think the opposite.  If backwards
> compatibility is the reason for this reverse behavior, the file should
> have been named dovecot-private-flags.  

I was thinking it more like "if this file exists, it's a shared mailbox, so there are many users reading it, so each user should have their own private (seen) flags".

> In fact that's a great name
> to stick a list of flags (one-per-line) that are private.


Yeah, that's been in todo for a while. I'd probably make dovecot-shared file have options:

private = \Seen Spam NotSpam
shared = \Answered
default = private # or shared

Of course if default is private there's not much point in specifying the private flags and vice versa for shared..