Preserving flags, and their global nature

[Lawrence Greenfield]

   From: "Ian McDonald" <ian at londontown.com>
   Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 18:07:59 -0000

   When I move (copy and delete) messages between shared folders, the
   (\Answered) and (\Flagged) flags are preserved, but the (\Seen) flag seems
   to be removed.

   The user doing the moving is some housekeeping software, and is not the same
   userid as the user which has examined the email.

   Is this meant to happen?

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