Re: "seen" flag for multiple users // cyrus and procmail
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 18:02, Kristian Rink wrote: > the archive of this list, it is not possible in cyrus (in IMAP?) to have > a general "seen" flag for mails or mailboxes so this way it is > impossible for any user who is able to read mail in the shared > mailboxes to find out whether or not anyone else already has read I've got a similar solution. So far my solution was to create a special user account which everyone uses in addition to their own. But then there is only one "deleted" flag; if one user deletes a mail the others don't see it at all. Now I'm looking for a way to have a per-user "deleted" flag, but keeping the users from "expunging" that mailbox and do it automatically when everyone has marked a mail as deleted. What I really want is: a global "seen", per-user "deleted", and automatic only expunge... MfG, Ulrich -- Heinz Ulrich Stille / Tel.: +49-541-9400463 / Fax: +49-541-9400450 design_d gmbh / Lortzingstr. 2 / 49074 Osnabrück / www.design-d.de
Re: "seen" flag for multiple users // cyrus and procmail
Kristian Rink wrote: (a) in this network, IMAP is used because the vast majority of mail traffic needs to be seen not only by a single user but by a group of persons. For what I have experienced and also read in the archive of this list, it is not possible in cyrus (in IMAP?) to have a general "seen" flag for mails or mailboxes so this way it is impossible for any user who is able to read mail in the shared mailboxes to find out whether or not anyone else already has read and possibly answered new mail. Is there a way to work around this condition? Reading the cyrus man pages I hoped that the "s" ACL setting would be doing right what I need here but obviously it didn't work. IMAP seen states are kept per-user, but the other flags are persistent and visible across any users viewing the mailbox. So, you should definitely see that a given message has been answered, and by convention you can use a different flag for meaning seen by the group. -- John A. Tamplin Unix System Administrator Emory University, School of Public Health +1 404/727-9931
Re: "seen" flag for multiple users // cyrus and procmail
Kristian Rink wrote: (a) in this network, IMAP is used because the vast majority of mail traffic needs to be seen not only by a single user but by a group of persons. For what I have experienced and also read in the archive of this list, it is not possible in cyrus (in IMAP?) to have a general "seen" flag for mails or mailboxes so this way it is impossible for any user who is able to read mail in the shared mailboxes to find out whether or not anyone else already has read and possibly answered new mail. Is there a way to work around this condition? Reading the cyrus man pages I hoped that the "s" ACL setting would be doing right what I need here but obviously it didn't work. This is a desired functionality for me too. While it is implemented (if it is) I'm using this method: for each shared folder I create a subfolder named (say) "managed" and instruct my users to move any answered/managed message to this subfolder. Bye -- Luca Olivetti
"seen" flag for multiple users // cyrus and procmail
Hello all,... ...being pretty new to imap, I am running cyrus on top of several Debian woody machines inside some small / mid-range company networks. By now, I am quite happy about cyrus, procmail and postfix handling mail on my servers, still there are (right now) two things I couldn't get along with, so far: (a) in this network, IMAP is used because the vast majority of mail traffic needs to be seen not only by a single user but by a group of persons. For what I have experienced and also read in the archive of this list, it is not possible in cyrus (in IMAP?) to have a general "seen" flag for mails or mailboxes so this way it is impossible for any user who is able to read mail in the shared mailboxes to find out whether or not anyone else already has read and possibly answered new mail. Is there a way to work around this condition? Reading the cyrus man pages I hoped that the "s" ACL setting would be doing right what I need here but obviously it didn't work. (b) On my machine, procmail is used to sort mails. In some situ- ations mail needs to be delivered to more than just one mailbox, so I tried to use procmail filtering recipes like that: :0 c * ^TOwhoever | $DELIVER_TO_ANOTHER_MAILBOX The ":0 c" is working well while delivering mail to mail folders but it doesn't work while using cyrdeliver to put mails into IMAP mail boxes. _Is_ it possible to make some procmail configuration like this work with cyrus? TIA, have a nice evening everyone... Cheers, Kris -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ Bitte lächeln! Fotogalerie online mit GMX ohne eigene Homepage!
