Preserving flags, and their global nature

Ian McDonald ian at londontown.com
Fri Nov 15 14:09:14 EST 2002


Is there any way for an admin user to read, or write, another users Seen
flags?

Do any other flags behave like this?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lawrence Greenfield" <leg+ at andrew.cmu.edu>
>
> You can argue about whether or not it should happen. The design of
> Cyrus makes it awfully difficult to change that this does happen and
> it's not always clear what the users want. (Maybe I want a message to
> appear unseen in a mailbox if someone has moved it there? Maybe not?)
>
> Cyrus will perserve the \Seen flag in copies for the user doing the
> copy. To all other users the \Seen flag will _not_ be set on the
> destination message.
>
> Larry





More information about the Info-cyrus mailing list