Obviously the same mechanisms that allow the global flags (\Answered, \Deleted, et al) to be updated in "real time" could be used for seen state. Seen state modification is just more frequent. The storage format Cyrus currently uses for seen state is also a little goofy (similiar to .newsrc style) and takes somewhat more effort to encode/decode to than a bit string.Quoting Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:Is there a reason for not using a shared-memory interface for Cyrus to allow all imapds serving a mailbox to share flag state? Maybe a long-living daemon akin to idled that stores the seen state, or using IPC and real shared memory maps.
Drastic rearchiteching isn't required, just some thought to make it check the seen database at appropriate times.
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I feel that message fixup is a good MTA task, like virus scanning or MIME reencoding. Sendmail already has a mailer flag to indicate whether or not a mailer can accept NULs (though I don't remember what it does if a message comes in with a NUL and the destination won't take it).Well, I think it goes back to the "be liberal in what you accept and conservative in what you send" rule. The users who have been happily receiving these messages aren't going to appreciate a response of "Well, they don't follow the standard, get Yahoo (etc) to fix their problem -- until then live without those messages", so for me I need to accept them. I have a solution that works for now (stripping them in my delivery program), but it seems like this out to be a standard option.
Larry
