In some email I received from Mike Jackson at Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 06:51:28PM +0300: > lou kamenov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Actually I don't fully agree with you Mike.. yes there is control ( Depends > > what control you want? Isn't it the same with the Exchange Public Folders?) > > Exchange Public folders (Guess why its called 'public') is for sharing > > calendar/notes/any shits to anybody in your _user group_. If you want more > > privacy then use Net folders which infact is working nicely for small > > workgroups. > > If I chmod 755 /home/jacksonm and chmod 644 all the files inside, then I > am sharing them with you but you can not add or delete them. Shared Again, here is your environment /var/qmail/maildirs right? with (chown -R vmail:vmail %dir && chmod 700 %dir) and also we have a pipe code which is running as vmail:vmail, then we have all these users using imap. I want to share something mine with you, i click on the specific folder and then share, the way how i see it, this folder is mirrored into ~mymaildir/%yourusername sorta a symlink.. with vmail:vmail permissions,fine. my %thing is shared with you okay its shared, and your client knows that its in ~mymaildir/%yourusername. And your client && this pipe code knows that if there is a shared folder it should be ~mymaildir/%yourusername. And all this could be impl in imap or any other mail pkg.. at the auth layer even.. trust me, with a bit dedication on this thing it can be done.. i have enuf work and i dont think i would be able to contribute it in the near future. anyways you got the drift.
cheers, -lk p.s. mike, there is no thing that is impossible...*smile* > folders are designed to work exactly the same way, based on the > permissions that are set by the user. In a virtual users environment, > the user has no permission to even enter the directories in, for > example, /var/qmail/maildirs, and probably does not even have a shell > account on the mailserver. The concept of shared folders in this > situation is either all or nothing. As soon as you introduce it to the > users, somebody in management will demand that they want to be able to > share a folder but that nobody else can add or delete to it. This is not > possible in this scenario. It is not an acceptable level of control for > nearly any environment that I can think of. > > If you want shared folders to work properly, you can not use a virtual > users environment. And yes, qmail-ldap can work just fine in a normal > user environment. Were this discussion taking place on the Courier IMAP > list, Sam would probably give you some good advice or tell you that he > will implement some changes. He is very reasonable, and has implemented > a few of my requests in the past. > > -- > Mike -- br, Lou Kamenov [ Network Infrastructure/Security Analyst ] [ c/o AEYE Ltd, London, UK ] [AEYE R&D - http://www.aeye.net ] [ AEYE Commercial - http://www.aeye-web.com ] [ phone: +44 (0) 20 89469546 ] [ fax: +44 (0) 7092 129079 ] [ mobile: +44 (0) 7905 514036 ] [ AEYE is Artificial Intelligence ]
