On 2014-09-23 Tue 10:06 AM |, Boris Goldberg wrote: > This might have something to do with the fact that this is a mail server, > and mail is being delivered by root (by procmail to maildirs if it makes a > difference). >
How about Dovecot & sieve (rules can be edited remotely in Thunderbird): "Filesystem quota supports both local filesystems and rquota (NFS).": http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Quota/FS http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Quota " ... temporarily drop privileges to users.": http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LMTP http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/Sieve http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/ManageSieve/ Almost a GUI for semi-competent users: https://addons.mozilla.org/EN-US/thunderbird/addon/sieve/ I've configured Dovecot to deliver to (NFS) /var/mail/ dirs, with per user sieve scripts in /var/mail/<user>/sieve/ too. Mutt works fine with /etc/mutt/Muttrc: set folder="$MAIL" set postponed="$MAIL/.Drafts" set record="$MAIL/.Sent" set trash="$MAIL/.Trash" mailboxes + `echo $MAIL/.* | tr -s ' ' '\n' | egrep -v 'Archive|Trash.' | tr -s '\n' ' '` There is no mail kept in $HOME This way, mail deleted or sent locally via Mutt, can be accessed remotely via IMAP - it is uniformly seemless. Also, /home & /var/mail can be unmounted & dumped with different level 0 frequency. Say annually for /home & quarterly for /var/mail.
