shared \seen flags on shared folders

[Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems)]

Dan White wrote:
> On 12/08/10 14:17 +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> >we have a kolab server here which as you probably know uses Cyrus for its
> >IMAP/POP/LMTP services.
> >
> >One issue we come across now and then is with a group who share a generic
> >incoming email address as well as each having their own personal address.
> >This email may take general customer queries for example.  They want to be
> >able to "share" the \seen flag between them, so that if one user reads the
> >email and deals with it, the others no longer see it as unread in their
> >clients.
> 
> Gavin,
> 
> The /vendor/cmu/cyrus-imapd/sharedseen annotation will share the seen state
> for a given mailbox.
> 
> In cyradm, you enable it with:
> 
> mboxconfig <mailbox> sharedseen true
> 
> See the cyradm man page. This feature was introduced in version 2.3.9.
> 

Note that setting flushseenstate may come in handy here as well.

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