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Re: [imap5] Comments on draft-gulbrandsen-imap-move-01

Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> Fri, 01 June 2012 22:23 UTC

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On 2.6.2012, at 1.14, Bron Gondwana wrote:

> The only potentially sticking point here is awful things like
> non-shared \Seen state.  Cyrus (the IMAP server, yay for namespaces)
> has per-user seen state.  The actual behaviour at the moment would
> be that the owners' \Seen state always gets copied, nobody else's
> does.  It might also make sense to copy your OWN \Seen state if you
> are not the owner.

The owner's \Seen state gets copied with COPY to your private mailbox? I think that might be considered a minor security/privacy leak, since it allows other users to see when the owner has read the message.

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