On Jan 31, 2008, at 8:40 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 22:51 -0500, Amitai Schlair wrote:
My world-weary, clunkier, but seemingly working solution:
1) have the alternate login yield my existing permissions, but a
different mail folder and metadata
2) create that mail folder, make its cur/new/tmp symlinks to the real
ones, and symlink in the other folders I care about
Is this safe?
Yes.
And is there a more elegant way to do what I want?
Why not symlink the entire maildirs so their metadata is shared as
well?
I should've been clearer. That's what I did, except for the top-level
maildir (so as to avoid getting the whole hierarchy underneath it).
Like so:
$ ls -la Maildir-iphone
total 1264
drwx------ 2 schmonz users 1024 Jan 31 00:37 .
drwxr-xr-x 27 schmonz users 15872 Jan 30 21:59 ..
lrwxr-xr-x 1 schmonz users 17 Jan 30 22:18 .Bills -> ../
Maildir/.Bills
lrwxr-xr-x 1 schmonz users 17 Jan 30 22:19 .Blogs -> ../
Maildir/.Blogs
lrwxr-xr-x 1 schmonz users 18 Jan 30 22:19 .Comics -> ../
Maildir/.Comics
lrwxr-xr-x 1 schmonz users 18 Jan 30 22:14 .Drafts -> ../
Maildir/.Drafts
lrwxr-xr-x 1 schmonz users 20 Jan 30 22:19 .Language -> ../
Maildir/.Language
lrwxr-xr-x 1 schmonz users 18 Jan 30 22:19 .Movies -> ../
Maildir/.Movies
lrwxr-xr-x 1 schmonz users 17 Jan 30 22:19 .Music -> ../
Maildir/.Music
lrwxr-xr-x 1 schmonz users 16 Jan 30 22:19 .News -> ../
Maildir/.News
lrwxr-xr-x 1 schmonz users 21 Jan 30 22:19 .Purchases -> ../
Maildir/.Purchases
lrwxr-xr-x 1 schmonz users 16 Jan 30 22:13 .Sent -> ../
Maildir/.Sent
lrwxr-xr-x 1 schmonz users 18 Jan 30 22:19 .Sports -> ../
Maildir/.Sports
lrwxr-xr-x 1 schmonz users 20 Jan 30 22:19 .Sysadmin -> ../
Maildir/.Sysadmin
lrwxr-xr-x 1 schmonz users 17 Jan 30 22:13 .Trash -> ../
Maildir/.Trash
lrwxr-xr-x 1 schmonz users 14 Jan 30 22:06 cur -> ../Maildir/cur
-rw------- 1 schmonz users 150 Jan 30 22:12 dovecot-keywords
-rw------- 1 schmonz users 347373 Jan 30 22:12 dovecot-uidlist
-rw------- 1 schmonz users 98464 Jan 30 22:12 dovecot.index
-rw------- 1 schmonz users 81920 Jan 30 22:38 dovecot.index.cache
-rw------- 1 schmonz users 64400 Jan 31 00:37 dovecot.index.log
lrwxr-xr-x 1 schmonz users 14 Jan 30 22:06 new -> ../Maildir/new
-rw------- 1 schmonz users 29 Jan 30 21:59 subscriptions
lrwxr-xr-x 1 schmonz users 14 Jan 30 22:06 tmp -> ../Maildir/tmp
Another possibility would be to write a plugin limiting what mailboxes
LIST shows.
Cool. A project for another day. :-)
Thanks,
- Amitai
