[Dovecot] folders via softlink

Brian Candler B.Candler at pobox.com
Wed Jun 9 22:33:59 EEST 2004


On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 10:12:22AM +0200, Gunter Ohrner wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 8. Juni 2004 18:23 schrieb Chris Barnes:
> > The shared spam folder is simply a file that everyone has rwx access to
> > and is softlinked to ~/mail/SharedSpam.  This used to work fine with UW
> 
> How about simply making a normal link instead? Untested by me, but I think 
> it'd be worth a shot.

Hardlinking a directory is a very, VERY dangerous thing to do.

Please do not attempt it unless you enjoy using newfs and restoring your
corrupted filesystem from a tape backup.

Brian.


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