Boris Lytochkin wrote:
My quick thoughts would be the following:
- Add a 'sharedseen' mailbox attribute as you suggest (as a mailbox
annotation)
- When a mailbox is opened that has this annotation enabled, we open the
seen state database for the special 'anyone' user instead of the
authorized user. This would allow using the same API with minimal
changes. Perhaps we could come up with a better userid then 'anyone'
but its already reserved as special via ACL.
It will work as long as we want to use shared folder for every user.
As soon as we want to restrict access to a set of users, this would not
work.
That's what the 's' right is for. Only give 's' to those users that you
want to be able to mark messages as seen.
Let me explain why I need this. There is an account that gets all
root and robot mail. So shared \Seen would have meaning of 'this mail
has been read by admins'. That is why I need to restrict access to
these shared folders.
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Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer
Carnegie Mellon University
