Preserving flags, and their global nature

[Ian McDonald]

Over the weekend, it struck me that a patch to make 'seen' global could be
as simple as commenting out the calls to the code that treats '\Seen' as a
special-case global variable, and adding 'Seen' to the list of global flags.
Somewhere. Unfortunately, when I had a look at the source code, I could find
libraries dealing with Seen, but no list of global flags or obvious hook for
the 'seen' per-user code.

Is it that simple? Where should I be looking?

----- Original Message -----
From: <adam at morrison-ind.com>
To: "Ian McDonald" <ian at londontown.com>
Cc: "Lawrence Greenfield" <leg+ at andrew.cmu.edu>;
<info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 12:28 AM
Subject: Re: Preserving flags, and their global nature


> >How difficult would it be to hack Cyrus to either make Seen global, or
make
> >Seen globally visible?
>
> Agree, a global seen attribute would be wonderfully useful.  Out marketing
> deptartment was terribly disappointed to discover that other flags
(answered)
> were global but seen was either personal, or not saved at all.  They need
> someone to read a message,  so the ability to see that anyone has at least
read
> the message would be terribly usefule.