[Dovecot] Incorrect response when opening read-only mailboxes with per-user flags?

Guido Berhoerster guido+dovecot.org at berhoerster.name
Wed Mar 27 22:16:41 EET 2013


* Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> [2013-03-27 20:27]:
> On 27.3.2013, at 13.41, Guido Berhoerster <guido+dovecot.org at berhoerster.name> wrote:
> 
> > After some debugging on the protocol level I've finally found the
> > problem with per-user seen flags in read-only mailboxes. Dovecot
> > actually does allow storing the seen flag on messages but AFAICS
> > it does not communicate that correctly to clients, this is what
> > its response to selecting a read-only mailbox with "lrs" ACL in
> > effect for the logged in user looks like:
> > 
> > 2 SELECT "Public/Test"
> ..
> > 2 OK [READ-ONLY] Select completed.
> > 
> > Shouldn't PERMANENTFLAGS contain \Seen here if per-user seen
> > flags are enable and should it even be tagged READ-ONLY at all in
> > this case? At least clients such as Python imaplib, IMAPClient,
> > or Roundcube will open such mailboxes with EXAMINE and thus do
> > not allow the modification of flags.
> 
> Are you still testing on v2.0? It could be a bug in it.

Yes, this is 2.0.9 from RHEL6.
-- 
Guido Berhoerster


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