Hi there,
We've been long time users of Dovecot, and have found it a great IMAP
server. I don't think we've had any serious problems in the 3-4 years
of use. So great work. :)
We have a IMAP inbox that is accessed by a number of different users
from Thunderbird. We have a rule in Thunderbird to flag new emails as
"TO DO", so someone can unflag the email once it has been actioned.
This process works fairly well for a simple workflow, but problems arise
when someone connects to the inbox with a Thunderbird instance that
doesn't have the "TO DO" rule configured. The email will not be
flagged properly. :(
I'd like to be able to set this flag/keyword when the mail is delivered
to the inbox, on the server side. That way the flag will be set no
matter which client accesses the Inbox first. We currently use mail
drop for our server-side mail filtering .... and would like to do a
similar thing with this flagging process.
We're using Dovecot 1.0.15 on Debian Testing, and use Maildir storage
and maildrop as our delivery agent.
I've read about how the keywords and Thunderbird labels work in the wiki
article here (http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir). So I
could probably write some sort of script to query the "dovecot-keywords"
file, and rename the Maildir file to set the appropriate flag. But this
sounds a like a bit of a hack, and maybe a little dangerous.
Does anyone have any recommendations as to how I could achieve something
like this? I'm keen to hear any ideas, whether it's through scripting,
or some sort of scriptable/command-line IMAP client.
Ideally, we'd have a way to set the flag at the time when the mail is
delivered.... or when the first client retrieves any new mail?
Thanks in advance!!
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Matt Doran
PaperCut Software International Pty. Ltd.
Phone: +61 (3) 9807 5767
E-mail: matt.do...@papercut.com
Profile: http://www.papercut.com/about/#matt
Blog: http://www.papercut.com/blog/
