I have a question, or maybe I just need some advice. Consider this situation please:
-There's a user called "info". The purpose of the user is to receive mail that will end up in a shared mail box that members of a group "info" can read and write to. -Postfix delivers messages to /var/spool/info (traditional unix style text file) -An mbx INBOX exists in /home/info (created by mailutil create #driver.mbx/INBOX) -Another user, Sam, has a symbolic link: "/home/sam/mail/info" pointing to "/home/info/INBOX". (Sam has a popular imap client that cannot get to mailboxes outside /home/sam/mail. Sam is very fond of this client because it interoperates with his handheld computing device. Sam is the boss.) The user "info" normally never logs in, but did anyway to see what would happen. As expected, whenever "info" uses imap or pine to open his INBOX, new messages get magically moved from the /var/spool/mail/info to /home/info/INBOX. (See bullet point 3 at <http://www.washington.edu/imap/IMAP-FAQs/index.html#4.5>.) But, if Sam uses imap to subscribe to the symbolic link and read messages, this act does NOT result in magically moving new messages from /var/spool/mail/info /home/info/INBOX. (My ugly workaround for the time being is a cron job that does the moving with mailutil.) Is it a bad practice to access a mailbox via a symbolic link? Shouldn't c-client move messages from the spool when a symbolic link is accessed that points to a user's mbx INBOX? If I am going about this the wrong way, I would be grateful for good advice. regards, Mark -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ For information about this mailing list, and its archives, see: http://www.washington.edu/imap/c-client-list.html ------------------------------------------------------------------
