mailbox.auto ignores dovecot-uidlist.lock

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Wed, 18 May 2016, Tom Sommer wrote:
> On 2016-05-18 11:52, Aki Tuomi wrote:
>> On 18.05.2016 12:44, Tom Sommer wrote:
>>> I'm trying to lock down a maildir from modifications using
>>> dovecot-uidlist.lock, but when a user with mailbox.auto = create logs
>>> in, then the folder is created regardless of dovecot-uidlist.lock
>>> existing or not.
>>> 
>>> Is there no way to prevent dovecot from touching anything in a maildir
>>> folder?
>>> 
>> Could you provide more information, like:
>> 
>> what you are trying to achieve
>> what did you do
>> what you configuration looks like
>> what version you are using
>
> I'm trying to move all files and folder from /foo.com/bar/ to 
> /foo.com/bar/Maildir without moving .dovecot.svbin and .dovecot.sieve etc. 
> (homedir files)
>
> So I wanted to lock the folder, kick the user and the move the files/folders, 
> but the user logs in just after I kick him and so the auto-folders are 
> created and my migration script fails, locking the folder with 
> dovecot-uidlist.lock and maildirlock does not work in this case.

Check out:

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/RestrictAccess?highlight=%28user%29|%28deny%29

"deny passwd-file"

add user into this file,
doveadm auth cache flush, # force reread credentials
kick user
migrate
remove user from file
either restart with next user
or flush cache

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Steffen Kaiser
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