On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 10:55 +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > On Thu, 09 Sep 2010, Bron Gondwana wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 06:10:44PM +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > > > What happens if the sharedseen attribute is changed during the lifetime of > > > a folder, when users may already have their own (or shared) \Seen flags? > > In Cyrus 2.3 and before (i.e. everything that's released now!) they are > > completely separate. Under the hood, the \Seen flags are actually owned > > by a 'nobody' user. > I take it there's no way to sensibly migrate flag data from one to the > other? Not that I know of; would be really nice. > When a user leaves, it's sometimes useful to hang onto their mailboxes and > share them with another member of staff. Yep, we do that all the time. > The \Seen flags can be useful in > this instance. In general we wouldn't set seenflags by default so you end > up wishing to retro-fit it. > > In Cyrus 2.4 (when I finish it!) the sharedseen flags are actually the > > _owner_'s flags. So if I turned on sharedseen on user.brong.SharedFolder > > then everybody would inherit my \Seen flags. If I turned it back on again, > > they would each get back their own \Seen flags, and I would keep the shared > > flags. > That sounds like exactly what I want :-) So the user's own \Seen flags continue to exist [are just ignored] when shared seen state is enabled? ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
