[Dovecot] Permanent flags not announced and public mailbox with per-user index

Julien Danjou julien at danjou.info
Mon May 31 14:26:41 EEST 2010


On Tue, May 25 2010, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 16:44 +0200, Julien Danjou wrote:
>
>> However, when selecting the mailbox, system flags are not announced as
>> permanent but only as session flags:
>
> Yeah, that's a bug I guess..
>
>> 3445 OK [READ-ONLY] Select completed.
> ..
>> Even if it's true that the Maildir is read-only, it's still possible to
>> store \Seen permanently.
>
> I think the main bug is that maildir is thought to be read-only. IMAP
> ACL RFC says READ-ONLY shouldn't be returned unless nothing can be
> changed. Does this help?
> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/c2c1639b91ee

It will not help my mail client (Gnus). 

It does not care about the READ-ONLY status to store the \Seen flag for
example, it cares about PERMANENTFLAGS.
But it seems that is is its right. What do you think ?

Cheers,
-- 
Julien Danjou
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