Cyrus newbie questions

[Huaqing Zheng]

On 2/22/06, Elver Loho <elver.loho at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> We're in the process of replacing a proprietary Microsoft Outlook
> based setup (that includes shared mail folders) with a
> Fetchmail/Postfix/Cyrus/Thunderbird based rollout. I've got a test
> system set up that works nicely, but I've come across a few "issues"
> that I'd like to get some more info (or just helpful pointers) on.
>
> 1. Cyrus does not allow the creation of new folders at the same level
> as the Inbox folder. Is there any way to change that?

See the documentation for altnamespace in the man page for imapd.conf.

> 2. We would like to have real-time status updates in mailboxes. That
> is, if there are two users looking at the same mailbox and one of them
> marks a message as read, then the other user should also see the
> message marked read. Is this possible with Cyrus? (The main e-mail
> address to which orders arrive is shared between four people.)

Yes, see how idled works.  Note that currently, only Thunderbird 1.5 really
supports the IDLE command.

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Huaqing Zheng
Beer and Code Wrangler at Large