Paul J Stevens wrote: > Larry Rosenman wrote: >> >> I was trying(!) to do it via the IMAP daemon, and failing. Is this >> "officially" supported to hack on the database? > > Only if you pay me to tell you so... Or maybe I just don't understand > your question. See below on IMAP stuff. > >> Also, this seems to mean if one of my users wanted to do similar >> things, they'd have to ask me to do the SQL stuff in the DB. > > Indeed, which requires dba level access and integrates nicely with > your platform-management framework - assuming you have one. If you > want to 'delegate' such daily maintenance to a lower level of > authorization, IMAP is your access point - *not* SQL. > > Why was IMAP failing for you?
It was complaining about violating hierarchy or some other such thing. (I was hand issuing the rename command, and may have gotten the syntax wrong, etc). I think I can see why the IMAP complaint (changing levels of "directories"), but.... > > > >> >> Also, is there any particular reason the dbmail_mailboxes.name column >> is limited to 100 characters? > > > Not that I'm aware of. That was most likely an adhoc decision way > back. > It's also in the code; > > dbmailtypes.h:#define IMAP_MAX_MAILBOX_NAMELEN 100 I wonder if it should be possibly longer, or just a text field? (just curious). -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 512-248-2683 E-Mail: [email protected] US Mail: 430 Valona Loop, Round Rock, TX 78681-3893 _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
