Re: [Dovecot] Shared mailbox plans

2007-04-28 Thread Francisco Reyes
Steffen Kaiser writes: My statement is simply my point of view, that the API should be independed of the backend. LDAP, Postgresql, Mysql.. I think any of them is fine. I think anything BUT the initial setup that Timo mentioned. Files in the mailstore I think is the least scalable option.

Re: [Dovecot] Shared mailbox plans

2007-04-22 Thread Francisco Reyes
Steffen Kaiser writes: Having ACLs in SQL allows companies to have a centralized place for all ACLs. Well, this statement is true for any backend, incl. LDAP. Correct. But many companies do not have a LDAP infrastructure. It is much easier to setup a Mysql DB and put a table for ACL than it

Re: [Dovecot] Shared mailbox plans

2007-04-22 Thread Joakim Ryden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:49:52 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steffen Kaiser writes: Having ACLs in SQL allows companies to have a centralized place for all ACLs. Well, this statement is true for any backend, incl. LDAP. Correct. But

Re: [Dovecot] Shared mailbox plans

2007-04-11 Thread Troy Engel
Timo Sirainen wrote: I think I'll also add a check to compare Maildir, new, cur and tmp directories' permissions and log a warning if they're not the same. Just as a sanity check, mine differ (for whatever reason - I probably used 'maildirmake' from Courier) like so: $ ls -gGld

Re: [Dovecot] Shared mailbox plans

2007-04-11 Thread Francisco Reyes
Timo Sirainen writes: Keeping ACLs in SQL is different from keeping the whole mailbox data in SQL. Currently the ACL plugin supports only vfile backend, but it wouldn't be too difficult to add support for SQL backend. Having ACLs in SQL allows companies to have a centralized place for all

Re: [Dovecot] Shared mailbox plans

2007-04-08 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 8.4.2007, at 1.04, Robert Schetterer wrote: Timo Sirainen schrieb: On 7.4.2007, at 14.31, Robert Schetterer wrote: for acl public folders with virtual domains, wouldnt it be a good idea to have them in sql as backend? Why? Hi Timo, as imap clients that are able to edit imap acls are

Re: [Dovecot] Shared mailbox plans

2007-04-08 Thread Robert Schetterer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Timo Sirainen schrieb: On 8.4.2007, at 1.04, Robert Schetterer wrote: Timo Sirainen schrieb: On 7.4.2007, at 14.31, Robert Schetterer wrote: for acl public folders with virtual domains, wouldnt it be a good idea to have them in sql as backend?

Re: [Dovecot] Shared mailbox plans

2007-04-07 Thread Robert Schetterer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Timo Sirainen schrieb: ** Configuration ** namespace shared { prefix = user/%u/ location = maildir:/home/%u/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared-indexes } So the only difference to how it's configured now is that %u is expanded to whatever

Re: [Dovecot] Shared mailbox plans

2007-04-07 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 7.4.2007, at 14.31, Robert Schetterer wrote: for acl public folders with virtual domains, wouldnt it be a good idea to have them in sql as backend? Why? PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Dovecot] Shared mailbox plans

2007-04-07 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 7.4.2007, at 19.02, Troy Engel wrote: What I was finding with testers is that each person's login process was rewriting permissions on the subscriptions file and the index files didn't work out for the same reason; 1 person would drop an email into a subfolder (MissedSpam e.g.), Dovecot

Re: [Dovecot] Shared mailbox plans

2007-04-07 Thread Robert Schetterer
Timo Sirainen schrieb: On 7.4.2007, at 14.31, Robert Schetterer wrote: for acl public folders with virtual domains, wouldnt it be a good idea to have them in sql as backend? Why? Hi Timo, as imap clients that are able to edit imap acls are rare ( thunderbird, Outlook cant do it yet i think