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

[Luca Olivetti]

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.

This is a desired functionality for me too.
While it is implemented (if it is) I'm using this method: for each 
shared folder I create a subfolder named (say) "managed" and instruct my 
users to move any answered/managed message to this subfolder.


Bye
-- 
Luca Olivetti