Bring back ANNOTATEMORE support

[John Capo]

On Sun, September 16, 2018 07:29, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2018, at 00:20, Samir Aguiar wrote:
>
>> Hi Bron,
>>
>>
>> On 09/12/2018 03:49 AM, Bron Gondwana wrote:
>>
>>> Samir: what's your plan for moving those users to something which
>>> supports standard ? Because the downside of keeping on supporting a legacy
>>> ANNOTATEMORE in Cyrus is that somebody has to
>>> maintain that forever if you're never planning to get off it, either you or everyone
>>> else touching that code!
>>
>> Yes, that's a fair point.
>>
>>
>> The plan is to update our client to use METADATA instead of
>> ANNOTATEMORE, while keeping support for both in the server. After this
>> we deprecate ANNOTATEMORE to signal customers that they should upgrade their clients.
>> This deprecation should happen mostly likely within two
>> years, and in the next years we will be removing it completely from the server.
>
> Right! OK, we'll add it back in 3.0 and 3.2 then (with a config option to turn it on),
> and deprecate it after that :)
>
> I have CC'd ellie who is making the releases and created
> https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd/issues/2525

Thanks.  I also need ANNOTATEMORE and METADATA active at the same time.  Updating to 3.X
would otherwise be impossible.  I suspect there are others, perhaps not on this list,
with the same needs.