[Dovecot] namespace public folders

Nikolay Shopik shopik at inblock.ru
Tue Nov 13 18:39:20 EET 2007



13.11.2007 19:30, Adam McDougall пишет:
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 05:03:37PM +0100, Markus Stumpf wrote:
>
>   Hoi,
>   
>   On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 02:08:46PM +0300, Nikolay Shopik wrote:
>   > My question is can I do such setup with dovecot+postfix. Im really appreciate for simple examples how can i accomplish this kind setup if it possible :)
>   
>   AFAIK the "Seen" Flag is not maintained on a per user basis.
>
> Actually it depends.  I've found in dovecot 1.0 and 1.1, if you have a 
> dovecot-shared file in the public folder, it forces private flags such as
> read.  The wiki has some information about dovecot-shared.
>   
>   I do the delivery to the public folders via the "aliases" mechanism and
>   the "safecat" program <http://jeenyus.net/~budney/linux/software/safecat.html>
>   which delivers messages from stdin to a Maildir specified on the cmdline.
>   Along with the safecat comes a "maildir" sh-script that is a wrapper for
>   safecat and makes things shorter.
>   
>       info: "|/usr/local/bin/maildir /var/spool/pubfolders/.info"
>       contact: "|/usr/local/bin/maildir /var/spool/pubfolders/.info"
>       sales: "|/usr/local/bin/maildir /var/spool/pubfolders/.sales"
>   
>   To work around permission problems I have made the safecat programm
>   setuid dovecot user, executable for owner and group and gave it to the group
>   postfix handles aliases deliveries with, e.g.:
>       ---s--x--- 1 dovecotu mail 21024 Oct 19 14:26 /usr/local/bin/safecat
>   
>   HTH,
>       \Maex
>   
>   -- 
>   Markus Stumpf
>   
Adam,

Thanks for pointing out, sounds promising now! ;)



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