[Dovecot] Disallow folder delete

mouss mouss at netoyen.net
Tue May 20 15:46:10 EEST 2008


Kenneth Porter wrote:
> On Monday, May 19, 2008 9:43 PM -0400 Charles Marcus 
> <CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com> wrote:
>
>> Thats pretty drastic - I'd have a rebellion on my hands if I tried that
>> here.
>
> The userbase is small, and I'd even be willing to set this up for one 
> user were that to happen. Most users aren't that sophisticated and 
> aren't creating folders in the first place. (Their inboxes tend to be 
> horribly huge because of it.)

a probably better approach is to backup the mailstore and let users do 
what they want in their mailer.
>
>>> I'm using 1.2.rc15 from CentOS 5 (RHEL5 equivalent).
>>
>> Actually, that would be 1.0rc15 - and it is way old, time to upgrade...
>> atrpms.net has current versions...
>
> How hard is the upgrade? Just install the new RPM, or is there any 
> configuration to update? (I'm currently using a pretty stock 
> installation that uses mbox in /var/spool/mail (for inbox) and 
> /home/user/mail.
>
> I did see 1.0.13 in Rawhide, so I figure I'd just grab the SRPM and 
> build/package against the RHEL libraries.



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