Preserving flags, and their global nature

Lawrence Greenfield leg+ at andrew.cmu.edu
Fri Nov 15 18:32:53 EST 2002


--On Friday, November 15, 2002 7:47 PM +0000 Ian McDonald 
<ian at londontown.com> wrote:

> How difficult would it be to hack Cyrus to either make Seen global, or
> make Seen globally visible?

Well, it's not clear in IMAP how to show the status of other user's seen 
flags.

While it wouldn't be impossible to make the seen flag global (probably 
could do it with writing a new seen_<something> backend) it would probably 
be a nuisance. Maybe a day of work for me?

Larry




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