[Dovecot] dovecot-shared

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 03:03 -0500, Frank Cusack wrote:
> On December 29, 2009 1:59:53 AM -0500 Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> > Yeah, that's been in todo for a while. I'd probably make dovecot-shared
> > file have options:
> 
> I was just thinking today it would be nice to have per-USER private or
> shared.  So e.g. all users by default might share \Seen \Answered but
> some admin users have private \Seen, and don't have to worry about
> resetting the \Seen flag when investigating for problems.

Are you still talking about shared mailboxes, or also users' private
mailboxes?

> This can be done already in a limited fashion with the 's' ACL (remove
> it for said admin users in the case above), but perhaps annoying if
> your mail client presents an error dialog when it fails to set the
> \Seen flag.

I'm too lazy to verify now, but I think Dovecot sends an OK reply even
if it doesn't have permissions to update flags, exactly because a NO
reply would cause clients to show annoying popups.

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