[Dovecot] Shared Folders via Symlinking

[Adrian Mardlin]

On 30 Dec 2010, at 11:46, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 11:02 +0000, Adrian Mardlin wrote:
>> I've managed to fix this initial problem by using INDEX=MEMORY. However, there's another side-effect. When deleting a symlinked folder, it leaves behind a file called ..DOVECOT-TRASHED, which is still symlinked. This then prevents that user from deleting any other folders.
> 
> Well, http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/b78e772cf1d2 fixes this
> problem but I'm not sure what to do about the indexing problem.. I'll
> either have to fix it some way or just disallow symlinks..
> 

How about simply deleting the index files before removing the symlink? Why would the Index files need to indicate that a mailbox has been deleted - surely that's handled by the fact that it's not there any more?

Regards,

Adrian


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