On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 22:00 -0800, David Jonas wrote:
> On 12/9/11 9:13 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 11:16 -0800, David Jonas wrote:
> >
> >> Is there a way of locking a mailbox, effectively making it read-only to
> >> IMAP clients?
> > By "mailbox" you mean the user's all folders? This isn't possible
> > currently, except by modifying filesystem permissions. A "default ACL
> > for entire namespace" would be a nice feature, but it's just not done
> > yet..
> Looks like changing the filesystem permissions gets me what I'm looking
> for. I simply removed write permissions for {cur,tmp,new}. Mailbox
> access seems to work just fine. Thunderbird shows the server responding
> with "SERVERBUG" and I get a "Permission denied" error in the logs,
> though. Not a big deal, the users will be notified before hand. Thanks!
If you remove the write permissions also from the parent Maildir (or
possibly some other files too), it shouldn't send SERVERBUG.
