[Dovecot] Read-only mail folders

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 09:11 +0000, Chris Wakelin wrote:
> Is it possible to have folders on read-only partitions in Dovecot 
> 1.0-stable?

Only if you set the permissions so that Dovecot really doesn't have
write access there. Other permission checks will come with ACL code some
day..

> Unfortunately, Dovecot always seems to want to write to the directory, 
> even when indexes are stored elsewhere (as recommended with NFS anyway, 
> I think) using INDEX=whatever in the location line.

With maildir you should also give CONTROL=elsewhere so it won't try to
create dovecot-uidlist files.

I'm not exactly sure if read-only maildirs work at the moment though.
Read-only mboxes work, more or less.. Hmm. That reminds me, lets see if
upgrading dovecot.org's dovecot version helps with its read-only mbox
problems..

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