Am 15.05.2012 20:57, schrieb Timo Sirainen: > Before beginning to code it, does anyone have any related ideas that could be > useful before starting it? > > Mainly what I'm intending to do is to write a plugin for mdbox storage that > allows users to expunge mails in a specific namespace only if there are other > instances for the mail. So basically: > > * Users can't accidentally delete mails (in shared mailboxes) > * Users can still move mails within folders > > For v2.1 this can be implemented only to a specific storage backend, so at > least for now only mdbox will support it. Maildir and sdbox support would > also be possible by looking at hard link counts. Race conditions would allow > deleting the mails, but that's unlikely to be an issue since the main point > is to avoid accidental deletions that shouldn't be attempted in the first > place anyway. >
Hi Timo, is this feature often asked by dovecot-users ? or are there special reasons for hacking it now, perhaps other stuff is more urgent... -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria
