mailbox.auto ignores dovecot-uidlist.lock

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Thu, 19 May 2016, Tom Sommer wrote:
> On 2016-05-19 08:07, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> Yea, I was just hoping there was a way without having to mess with passdb

If you have easy Unix permission on disk:

# user cannot change anything
chown -R root:root basedir
migrate
# make sure userdb is current
flush cache
# make user re-login to get changes in effect
kick user
# allow write access to user
chown -R vmail:vmail basedir

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Steffen Kaiser
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