Hi,
Is it safe to write to the Maildir subscriptions file directly?
I'm trying to figure out a way to make sure the subscriptions match the
actual folders exactly. I know how to subscribe to existing mailboxes
with doveadm mailbox list and doveadm mailbox subscribe, but the
latter seems to only accept mailboxes on the command line, and any local
user can see the command line of any other user's commands. Also, that
doesn't handle unsubscribing from non-existent mailboxes. I think
unsubscribing from any mailboxes listed in doveadm mailbox list -s but
not in doveadm mailbox list would work, but it has the same issue of
mailboxes on the command line.
It looks like I could do what I want with something like this command, but I'm not sure if it's safe to write directly to the subscriptions file:
{ echo INBOX; ls -1A | grep '^\.' | cut -c 2-; } > subscriptions
(I was also thinking about using doveadm mailbox list to write the
subscriptions file directly, but it looks like they use different
separators and encodings.)