APPEND and \Seen flag handling with admin account

[Ken Murchison]

Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:

> Hmm, sad, no takers - 2nd attempt follows..
> 
> On Friday 12 November 2004 19:24, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> 
>>When APPENDing mails as the cyrus admin, the \Seen flags magically
>>disappears, unlike appending to the mailbox as its owner: they're
>>preserved as expected.
>>
> 
> Well, I've looked into the source now, and understand, what happens: 
> the seen db is user dependant.
> 
> Further thinking and searching on how to solve this problem cleanly 
> brought me to the proxyauth command, which would fit my needs, but  
> unfortunately is non standard nor implemented in cyrus.

It is nonstandard, but also isn't needed.  Cyrus supports SASL 
mechanisms which support proxying, specifically PLAIN and DIGEST-MD5.


> Thus let me rephrase my question: is there a way to migrate mbox 
> mailboxes in a way, that they appear exactly the same in cyrus from 
> within an admin account (without compromising user logins), including 
> the \Seen flag?

Use one of the SASL mechanisms above to authenticate as an admin, but 
authorize as the user that you are migrating.

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