annotations per-user NOT per-folder

[Ken Murchison]

Michael Karrer wrote:
> Probably my mail client isn't good enough:
> 
> 1. I use Thunderbird as a mail client
> 2. My mailserver is Cyrus and postfix
> 3. I have set up shared folders for all users in my company
> 4. I press the keys 1-5 which means "Mark Message as - Important, ready, 
> ..." and so on
> 5. Now all user sees that this message is whatever i set it too - And 
> that's exactly what i don't want!
> 
> So is there a way of globally and private setting a mail to important in 
> general shared folders ?!? - or did i simply misunderstand or miss 
> described my problem?!


Ah, you're talking about message flags (keywords actually).  All flags 
other than \Seen are shared flags in Cyrus.  If/when we implement 
message annotations, we could make keywords private.  There is currently 
no way to change the behavior that you're seeing.



> Btw: The share folders are not under some users INBOX but on the same 
> level as the users INBOXes.
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> 
> Ken Murchison schrieb:
>> Michael Karrer wrote:
>>> Hello List,
>>>
>>> Is there a way to make the annotations (like important, to do...) 
>>> "per user" and not "per folder" - just like the seen unseen database?
>>>
>>>
>>> Per folder just doesnt make sense in a large company with a lot of 
>>> people.
>>
>> Cyrus supports both shared and private (per-user) mailbox annotations, 
>> depending on the annotation.  /comment, for instance can be private 
>> and/or shared.
>>
>> If you're talking about messages annotations, Cyrus doesn't support 
>> them (yet).
>>
> 


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Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer
Carnegie Mellon University