[Dovecot] Public Namespace and ACLs with pure virtual users

[Adam McDougall]

On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 05:50:01AM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:

  On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 22:26 -0400, Adam McDougall wrote:
  > On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 04:28:56AM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
  > 
  >   ACL plugin shouldn't have anything to do with that decision. The \Seen
  >   flag is stored privately if you have created dovecot-shared file to the
  >   maildir. 
  > 
  > Is it possible to have dovecot enforce the file mode and group owner of
  > inserted mails without causing flags to be stored privately?  Its looking
  > like I will have to use a cron job to fix file permissions on mails added
  > to shared mail folders by imap clients.  I'd be willing to implement a 
  > local permanent patch but I haven't looked into how easy it would be yet
  > because I did not (until now) realize that this behavior was intended.
  
  src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-storage.c around line 539:
  
  		mbox->private_flags_mask = MAIL_SEEN;
  
  Set that to 0.
  
Thanks, finally got around to testing it in my environment and it seems to 
work fine.