On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Philipp Führer wrote:
i'm working with a system where are all mail users use the same home
directory /home/mailusers. i can't change the home directory because of an
other applications which needs this configuration. now i want imapd to use an
alternate home-directory for each user. like /home/mailusers/user1 for user
no. 1, /home/mailusers/user2 for user no.2 and so on.
The correct way to do this is to modify the routine mymailboxdir() in
env_unix.c, e.g.:
static char *mymailboxdir ()
{
if (!myMailboxDir && myHomeDir) {
char tmp[MAILTMPLEN];
sprintf (tmp,"/home/mailusers/%s",myusername ());
myMailboxDir = cpystr (tmp);
}
return myMailboxDir ? myMailboxDir : "";
}
You need the check for myHomeDir to make sure that myMailboxDir isn't set
to the root name prior to login.
I tried changing blackBoxDir in env_unix.c to the specific Username. i did
this by adding
blackBoxDir = cpystr(myUserName); to the function env_init.
I'm surprised that that worked at all. That isn't what blackBoxDir does
nor how it is supposed to work. I suggest that you don't use the black
box stuff at all, and instead you use the above patch.
what would be a good point to look at to find the functions of imapd which
create those mailboxes. i had my problems browsing the source.
Mailbox creation is a complex matter. Ultimately, it goes to the
particular driver which is going to create the files in the determined
format.
I suggest that you not worry about that. You had the right idea by going
into the environment routines in env_unix.c; you just picked the wrong way
to do it.
-- Mark --
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Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
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