[Dovecot] Preventing IMAP folder removal?

[Gunter Ohrner]

Am Mittwoch, 27. Juli 2005 21:46 schrieb John R. Dennison:
> Our concern, however, is that a user will attempt to remove their
> Spam folder, which will break the symlink and the next time a
> spam message is delivered the folder will be re-created as a
> directory and will reside on the same filesystem as their Maildir.

Did you try to set the permission in a way the link cannot be deleted? eg. 
chown it to another user and set the sticky bit on the enclosing 
directory... (Untested, but might work.)

Greetings,

  Gunter

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