On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Andrew Daviel wrote:
- question: if using the MIX format, what happens to the ownership and permissions of new folder fragments (whatever .mixnnn files are called) in shared folders ? Do they get set with mode 600 hence become unreadable by other group members ?
Mailboxes in #shared are created with mode 660 for files and 770 for directories.
If I create a regular account with appropriate file permissions and group memberships I can access it easily in Alpine as {mail.example.com/user=jane}~dick/INBOX But in Thunderbird I can't see how to easily subscribe.
I wish that I could help you on this, but I can't. Thunderbird's implementation of the IMAP subscription mechanism is broken by design, and has been for 15+ years. I wrote, years ago: 9. Thou shalt not abuse subscriptions, for verily the LIST command is the proper way to discover mailboxes on the server. Thou shalt not subscribe names to the user's subscription list without explicit instructions from the user; nor shalt thou assume that only subscribed names are valid. Rather, thou shalt treat subscribed names as akin to bookmarks, or perhaps akin to how Windows shows the "My Documents" folder -- a set of names that are separate from the hierarchy, for they are such. Thunderbird (and its predecessors such as Netscape Messenger) is the worst violator, followed closely by Outlook. Regrettably, the simple answer is that Thunderbird users are screwed.
I also get a complaint from sendmail that ~dick is group-writable, and sendmail refuses to read ~dick/.forward. Not perhaps a problem since forwarding a group account is unlikely.
~dick needs to be group-writeable only if you need to allow other users to create new mailboxes in ~dick. If you do, then you are probably best off using the mailsubdir mechanism to put mailboxes in a subdirectory; that way you can make the subdirectory group-writeable without making the home directory group-writeable and then sendmail won't have a hissy-fit. -- Mark -- http://panda.com/mrc Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote. _______________________________________________ Imap-uw mailing list Imap-uw@u.washington.edu http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-uw