[Dovecot] Shared Folders via Symlinking

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sat, 2011-01-01 at 16:35 +0000, Adrian Mardlin wrote:
> 
> > Well, http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/b78e772cf1d2 fixes this
> > problem but I'm not sure what to do about the indexing problem..
> I'll
> > either have to fix it some way or just disallow symlinks..
> > 
> 
> How about simply deleting the index files before removing the symlink?
> Why would the Index files need to indicate that a mailbox has been
> deleted - surely that's handled by the fact that it's not there any
> more?

It's to avoid race conditions when another session accesses a mailbox
during mailbox deletion. For example quota could get screwed up.

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