[Dovecot] flags, keywords in a shared mailbox setup

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 17:48 +0200, Thomas Hummel wrote:

> More specifically :
> 
>   . is, in 1.2x, the method for having private flags of a shared mailbox still
>     to have the 'dovecot-shared' file (in order to store flags in indexes) ?

dovecot-shared currently only controls \Seen flag. All other flags are
always shared.

>   . how can shared keywords in a shared mailbox even work ? If they're shared
>     (how ? by pointing CONTROL to the same user-independent location ?), keywords
>     known by a client (user1) won't necessary be known or have the same meaning for
>     another client (user2), will they ?

If you don't share control directory, keywords can get more or less
broken because different users have different mappings for maildir
char<->keyword name. So you should share the control directory.

>     [Note : isn't it the same event with no shared mailboxes but with one user using several clients ?]

Exactly. Probably not much of a problem.

>     But, if they're private, they have to be stored outside the filename : how can we do that ?

Currently you can't. Although changing the code to support it probably
wouldn't be too difficult. I need some kind of a design plan for this
some day. :)
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