On 28.12.2009, at 2.08, Frank Cusack wrote: > I'm confused about dovecot-shared. > > If the file exists, \SEEN flags are NOT shared?
Right. > So if dovecot-shared exists, flags are actually private. The doc > seems clear on this (albeit not worded very well). I only question it > because intuitively you would think the opposite. If backwards > compatibility is the reason for this reverse behavior, the file should > have been named dovecot-private-flags. I was thinking it more like "if this file exists, it's a shared mailbox, so there are many users reading it, so each user should have their own private (seen) flags". > In fact that's a great name > to stick a list of flags (one-per-line) that are private. Yeah, that's been in todo for a while. I'd probably make dovecot-shared file have options: private = \Seen Spam NotSpam shared = \Answered default = private # or shared Of course if default is private there's not much point in specifying the private flags and vice versa for shared..
