"seen" flag for multiple users // cyrus and procmail

[John Alton Tamplin]

Kristian Rink wrote:

>(a) in this network, IMAP is used because the vast majority of 
>mail traffic needs to be seen not only by a single user but by a
>group of persons. For what I have experienced and also read in
>the archive of this list, it is not possible in cyrus (in IMAP?) to have
>a general "seen" flag for mails or mailboxes so this way it is 
>impossible for any user who is able to read mail in the shared 
>mailboxes to find out whether or not anyone else already has read
>and possibly answered new mail. Is there a way to work around 
>this condition? Reading the cyrus man pages I hoped that the "s" 
>ACL setting would be doing right what I need here but obviously
>it didn't work.
>  
>
IMAP seen states are kept per-user, but the other flags are persistent 
and visible across any users viewing the mailbox.  So, you should 
definitely see that a given message has been answered, and by convention 
you can use a different flag for meaning seen by the group.

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John A. Tamplin                               Unix System Administrator
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