On Thu, 20 May 2004, Henry Baragar wrote:
>Andy,
>On a related note, how does one prevent bincimapd from running on an
>individual account?  qmail uses the sticky bit on the home directory
>(which probably does not work very well for virtual users).
>This came up when I was thinking about how to migrate a Maildir++ depot to
>an IMAPdir depot.  It would be nice not to have to shut down bincimap for
>everyone while the migration is being done.

Just insert a script ahead of bincimapd which checks for (for example) a
".disabled" file or something, something like this (although untested):

#!/bin/sh
if [ -e .disabled ]; then exit 111; fi
exec @$

Andy :-)

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Andreas Aardal Hanssen   | http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg
Author of Binc IMAP      |  "It is better not to do something
http://www.bincimap.org/ |        than to do it poorly."

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