On 26.6.2012, at 21.34, J E Lyon wrote: > After many hours of searching (!) and lots of testing procmail scripts, I > found the explanation I was looking for -- something you explained at > http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2008-July/032551.html > > That explains it. > > Thing is, though, every time I've seen shared mailboxes -- really shared by > multiple staff or not -- the preference is in fact for the shared behaviours > to also "share" the Seen flags. Typically, someone doesn't want to read an > email that someone else has already picked up and started dealing with or > responded to. (They'll file it in due course, but the Seen flag is the first > indicator that someone's opened and started to deal with it.) > > Hacking source code and branching and whatnot isn't easy or done lightly, but > I wondered if anything else had come to light in recent years about this > issue.
So you don't want shared seen flags? You can simply not create dovecot-shared file nowadays. It's not necessary. The only other purpose for it was as the template for file permissions, but those are nowadays taken from the maildir itself: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes/Permissions
