Re: flags on backuped mails

2006-11-14 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2006-11-14 at 17:57 +0100, Marten Lehmann wrote: > ok, good point. I haven't worked with Shared Folders yet, but how and > where are flags stored then? Isn't the global flag what you want? If I'm Depends upon the flag. Seen state is one that's kept per-user and that's in a separate file unde

Re: flags on backuped mails

2006-11-14 Thread Marten Lehmann
Hello, (1) That doesn't allow for per-user flags, only global flags. Shared folders. ok, good point. I haven't worked with Shared Folders yet, but how and where are flags stored then? Isn't the global flag what you want? If I'm sharing a folder then I probably don't want to work on an e

Re: flags on backuped mails

2006-11-14 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2006-11-14 at 13:18 +0100, Marten Lehmann wrote: > 2. Why aren't flags stored in the file name, too? I used to see that > with Maildirs and it is very clever: Flags are permanent and aren't lost > if the index is broken. Anyway, the index speeds up access to the flags > and the index can be r

flags on backuped mails

2006-11-14 Thread Marten Lehmann
Hello, to backup a mailbox, I would simply have to tar and gzip it. Mails are stored in the numbered files and flags are stored in the cyrus-files. But restoring these mails including flags is very complicated. I would have to renumber them so they don't conflict with existing messages and a