[Dovecot] Default subscriptions

Christian Schmidt christian at siebenbergen.de
Mon Sep 18 20:24:35 EEST 2006


Hello Vegard,

Vegard Svanberg, 18.09.2006 (d.m.y):

> * Christian Schmidt <christian at siebenbergen.de> [2006-09-18 17:00]:
> 
> > > Is it possible to force a subscription to an IMAP folder? So that a user
> > > by default is subscribed to folder <foo> and cannot unsubscribe.
> > 
> > Make sure that the corresponding mailbox is mentioned in your users'
> > ~/.subscriptions file.
> > But take care that you don't kill their own subscriptions.
> 
> I'm aware of .subscriptions, but the user could just unsubscribe. 

I know. But what I wrote was:
_Make sure_ that the corresponding mailbox is mentioned in your users'
~/.subscriptions file.

> That
> could be acceptable, in theory, but you always have a certain percentage
> of users pushing buttons they don't should and complain later. I could
> of course write a cron-something to take care of it, 

That's what I tried to propose.

> but I'd prefer to
> let dovecot handle it, if possible. Some sort of "required
> subscriptions"-feature, like INBOX.

Maybe you could achieve this by copying some lines in the source code
and replacing INBOX with the name of the corresponding mailbox...

Gruss/Regards,
Christian Schmidt

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