On Aug 19, 2004, at 02:45, Larry Osterman wrote:
What do you mean it doesn't seem to help between connections?
When the same anonymous client connect to the server during a different
session, it always sees the messages permanent flags, instead of how it
saw them during its previous session.
Title: RE: shared mailbox permanent flags?
Ah, you're right - I forgot
about \Recent. \Recent is "special" since it's not a "real"
flag.
From: Pete Maclean
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/2004, Larry Osterman wrote:
Ah,
you're right - I forgot about \Recent. \Recent is
special since it's not a real flag.
From: Pete Maclean
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Subject: RE: shared mailbox permanent flags?
I think
on and off in the per-session
in-memory list.
Larry
Osterman
From: Pete Maclean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 1:29 PM
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Subject: RE: shared mailbox permanent flags?
Thanks, Larry. I too forgot
about the specialness
Hello,
What is the recommended way for dealing with shared mailbox regarding
permanent flags?
Specifically, I have a public mailbox accessible to anyone, however
only the owner of the mailbox can store flags permanently.
Anonymous clients can access such a mailbox properly, but because they
On 18.8.2004, at 23:02, petite_abeille wrote:
Is it possible to signal to the client to keep track of the message's
flags?
Returning empty PERMANENTFLAGS list is your best bet. Although probably
no clients actually do it.
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Hi Timo,
On Aug 18, 2004, at 22:37, Timo Sirainen wrote:
FLAGS list shouldn't be empty. It should contain at least the system
flags.
Ok. So FLAGS should always returns \Answered \Deleted \Draft \Flagged
\Recent and \Seen? Even if they are not applicable for such mailbox?
But this doesn't seem
the difference typically).
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Subject: Re: shared mailbox permanent flags?
On 18.8.2004, at 23:28, petite_abeille wrote
, 2004 2:00 PM
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Subject: Re: shared mailbox permanent flags?
Hi Timo,
On Aug 18, 2004, at 22:37, Timo Sirainen wrote:
FLAGS list shouldn't be empty. It should contain at least the system
flags.
Ok. So FLAGS should always returns \Answered \Deleted \Draft \Flagged
\Recent
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, petite_abeille wrote:
Ok. So FLAGS should always returns \Answered \Deleted \Draft \Flagged \Recent
and \Seen? Even if they are not applicable for such mailbox?
Yes, and those flags are *always* applicable (even if they are
session-only) by definition.
Consider the effect
On Aug 18, 2004, at 23:09, Larry Osterman wrote:
You MUST support ALL the built-in flags on every mailbox. You might
not
be able to persist those flag settings, but you MUST support them on a
per-session basis.
Ok. I'm keeping track of them on a session basis. Thanks for the
clarification.
PA.
On 19.8.2004, at 00:08, Larry Osterman wrote:
Actually if you set FLAGS to non empty and PERMANENTFLAGS to empty, all
the clients should work. You need to maintain flags in-memory even if
you can't persist them (it's in the spec), but most (if not all)
clients
handle the non persistence
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Subject: Re: shared mailbox permanent flags?
Hi Timo,
On Aug 18, 2004, at 22:37, Timo Sirainen wrote:
FLAGS list shouldn't be empty. It should contain at least the system
flags.
Ok. So FLAGS should always returns \Answered \Deleted \Draft \Flagged
\Recent and \Seen? Even if they are not applicable
--On 2004-8-19 12:37 AM +0300 Timo Sirainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Having clients store flag changes permanently in client side would be
useful for publically accessible IMAP mailboxes. I think clients
should do that for flags not included in PERMANENTFLAGS list, but
they don't.
I'm not
Argh! I have always had a serious misunderstanding about this then. It
seemed to me that the very fact that there is a response explicitly listing
FLAGS applicable to the mailbox meant that a server was not required to
support all of them. Well, I stand corrected. Thank you for the
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