[Dovecot] Preventing IMAP folder removal?

[Todd Vierling]

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Remy Zandwijk wrote:

> > We want to use a sym-link to point '..Spam' to a location on another
> > filesystem.  Our testing shows that dovecot will happily follow a
> > sym-link properly and no badness occurs as a result.
>
> Did you test what happens when a user creates another folder within
> the symlinked folder? In our situation, the new folder was created on the
> filesystem which contains the symlink and not the filesystem to which the
> symlinks links. Just FYI.

Which is correct, for maildir.  In Cyrus's allegedly all-knowing wisdom, in
the Maildir namespace, the directory ".foo.bar.baz" is folder "foo/bar/baz".

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