On 11.10.2012, at 23.38, Frerich Raabe wrote: > Am 11.10.2012 um 22:10 schrieb Timo Sirainen: >> On 10.10.2012, at 11.06, Frerich Raabe wrote: >>> I already use this; as I mentioned, the index files of the public readonly >>> mailbox is stored per-user so that each user has his own set of \Seen >>> flags. Here's my public namespace: >>> >>> namespace public { >>> separator = / >>> prefix = Lists/ >>> location = >>> maildir:/home/vmail/lists/Maildir:CONTROL=~/Maildir/lists:INDEX=~/Maildir/lists >>> subscriptions = no >>> } >>> >>> Alas, this means that *all* index files (including the Squat index) is >>> stored per-user whereas I'd just to have just *some* of them per-user. :-) >> >> You'll need v2.2 and its INDEXPVT setting. > > Hm, you mean the feature introduced by > http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/dbd42f7198eb ?
Yes. > Is there some discussion of the feature somewhere? http://markmail.org/message/45jxf363ffrubonv has some. > The commit log is a bit unclear to me, it says 'Per-user flags can now be > stored in private index files.' however > http://wiki2.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes/Public says 'By making each user > have their own private index files, you can make the \Seen flag private for > the users.' (using the INDEX setting). > > Makes me wonder - the Wiki talks about 'private index files' when talking > about 'INDEX' and the commit says 'private index files' talking about > INDEXPVT - what is the difference? :-) You can have both! Shared indexes having the shared stuff (including squat indexes), while the private indexes only have the per-user flags, nothing else. For example with sdbox/mdbox you couldn't even have set per-user INDEX location or it would have just broken.