Building an interface to undelete for users

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 00:19 +1100, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:28:50AM +0100, David Mayo wrote:
> > We have recently upgraded to Cyrus 2.3 and are making full use of the 
> > "delayed delete" feature, and we are considering writing an interface to 
> > allow users to undelete their own messages and mailboxes.
> > Before I start work on this myself, I thought I'd check with people here 
> > to see if anyone has any tips or code they are willing to share. I hope 
> > we will be able to publish the product we create.
> Are you planning to use the unexpunge tool behind the scenes for this,
> or something more hooked into the innards?
> (I ask because the innards are going through a big overhaul at the moment,
> but I hope to keep the unexpunge tool working nicely!)
> Also - do people care about losing their \Seen state?  Because maintaining
> that over unexpunge is possibly viable, but might cost a bit more IO.

It doesn't matter to me either way;  loosing seen on unexpunge is fine
with me.