[Dovecot] don't follow symlinks when creating mailbox list

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-bonn-rhein-sieg.de
Wed Jun 18 17:01:48 EEST 2008


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On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Dan Horák wrote:

> The main problem are loops that are taking the imap process into endless
> search. The February thread contains your workaround (patch) that blocks
> all symlinks which means even the harmless ones.

Some people use symlinks to get Shared Folders, therefore I suggest to not 
ignore symlinks in Dovecot by default.

Bye,

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Steffen Kaiser
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