On 25.7.2007, at 16.35, pod wrote:
In lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-storage.cmaildir_is_valid_create_name() and maildir_is_valid_existing_name() thefollowing sequence of tests appear but I don't really understand why
It's mostly there just to make sure that ~/ or ~user/ can't be used to open mailboxes where you weren't supposed to have access to. I didn't think anyone would really want to have mailboxes beginning with ~. Do you really want them? (I don't think they were possible with UW-IMAP either?)
Why is it not possible to have mailbox names that begin with '~' but without '~' carrying any special meaning?
That's what the code does if you don't have mail_full_filesystem_access=yes, but I thought I'd prevent this in =no case just in case of a bug somewhere, possibly even outside of Dovecot itself.
I have been working on a patch (appended but incomplete; the option only works against maildir atm) that adds a new option mail_allow_tilde and my admittedly limited testing seems to indicate that it does the right thing but maybe I am barking up the wrong tree. Am I missing something here?
There are too many settings already. mail_full_filesystem_access=no should be enough for this.
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