[Dovecot] flags, keywords in a shared mailbox setup

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 17:06 +0200, Thomas Hummel wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 03:02:47PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 
> > If you don't share control directory, keywords can get more or less
> > broken because different users have different mappings for maildir
> > char<->keyword name. So you should share the control directory.
> > 
> > >     [Note : isn't it the same event with no shared mailboxes but with one user using several clients ?]
> > 
> > Exactly. Probably not much of a problem.
> 
> Why not much of a problem ? 

Because I haven't yet heard complains about this from people?

> Sure there will be only one mapping but cannot the
> keyword meaning be different between different user agent of even the same user
> ? Can't we end up in a message tagged as "important" in a client being tagged as
> "personnal" in another client ?

Dunno. There are two possibilities here:

a) Client uses "Important" and "Personal" keywords -> no problem here.

b) Client 1 uses $Label1 keyword to mean "Important", while client 2
uses $Label1 to mean "Personal". I know TB used to use $Label* keywords.
I don't know if it still does. I don't know if any other client maps
them to conflicting names.
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