[Dovecot] folders via softlink

Gunter Ohrner G.Ohrner at post.rwth-aachen.de
Thu Jun 10 03:42:58 EEST 2004


Am Mittwoch, 9. Juni 2004 21:33 schrieb Brian Candler:
> > > The shared spam folder is simply a file that everyone has rwx access to
> > 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.

Yes, but hardlinking a file is nothing unusual. You should not do it with your 
active lockfiles or postfix mailspool but for the spam collector file it 
could work, provided that it can be properly locked this way.

Greetings,

  Gunter

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