Hi Brenda, I just looked through the qmail-1.03/qmail-local.c source. qmail chokes if the user's $HOME is writable, but doesn't check perms on the Maildir itself.
Let me try it out on my server... Yep, no problem. I've linked another user's mail directory into my own maildir and made myself a member or her group. Now I can see her whole maildir as a subfolder of my own. Cool. qmail still delivers to her maildir ok. BTW: If your MTA doesn't like rwxrxw--- directories, you could pipe all mail through procmail, which doens't mind group writeability --Noel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brenda Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 12:57 PM Subject: Re: [courier-users] Shared INBOX!! > Noel Burton-Krahn wrote: > > # let's have b and a share a subfolder, not the whole Maildir > > maildirmake ~a/Maildir/Folder > > > > # make b's Maildir/Folder point to a's. Courier will always look in > > # the user's home directory for the Maildir, so b's home Maildir must point > > # to the shared one > > # > > ln -s ~a/Maildir/Folder ~b/Maildir/Folder > > > > # put b in a group that can read/write a's maildir > > groupadd agroup > > usermod -G agroup b > > > > # make sure the group can read/write each other's file in Maildir. > > chgrp -R agroup ~a/Maildir/Folder > > chmod g+wx ~a/Maildir/Folder > > find ~a/Maildir/Folder -type d | xargs g+s > > Depending on your MDA, this isn't going to work. For instance, qmail > will not deliver mail to a Maildir unless its permissions are rwx for > the owner and --- for group and world. Based on a cursory test I just > ran, I don't believe b will be able to access the Folder in a's Maildir > because of the restricted permissions on Maildir. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > courier-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users > > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
