dovecot - Jul 2004 - Concerning: in 0.99.10.7 - Maildir: LIST now doesn't skip symlinks

TSS/Dovecot:

   I saw the recent change in the ChangeLog about the 'subtraction' of
the
listing of symlinks.

The point showed(minus): - Maildir: LIST now doesn't skip symlinks

   Does this truly mean the functionality was removed? I'd tried doing
symlink'd
maildirs in 99.10.6 w/ no luck and when I saw this change I hoped this was an
addition, as it would be great in lieu of Dovecot's lack of ACL/Shared
folders.

   If it was intented to be ADDED in the recent .7 release, it still doesn't
work. If it was pulled (which is strange becauase my .6 release didn't do
it),
why?
Are the .conf directives about it I'm missing by chance? (Didn't notice
anything)

   I'm using Dovecot in combo with horde/imp and it's amazingly faster
than
courier-imap or uwash-imap, well done!

   What about the aforementioned ACL/Shared folders? I'm getting into a crux
that I may need it and courier-imap-/-cyrus-imap will do my trick but, dovecot
smokes them on performance! (Especially with horde/imp's preview/info stuff)



   Thanks! -- Chris Pickert

Is there any problem running two different IMAP servers
against the same Maildir/ folders while you transition from
one to the other? I'm sure dovecot will just rebuild the index
files if the Maildir changes, iregardless of how that change
happened?

Paul

On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 20:59, chris pickert wrote:
>    I saw the recent change in the ChangeLog about the 'subtraction'
of the
> listing of symlinks.
> 
> The point showed(minus): - Maildir: LIST now doesn't skip symlinks
The minus actually means bugfix :) Plus is a new feature. Star is a
change or some important note.
>    If it was intented to be ADDED in the recent .7 release, it still
doesn't
> work.
It should work. You could try with maildir_stat_dirs = yes to be sure,
but it shouldn't matter.

Is the problem really that it doesn't show in LIST at all, or doesn't
just SELECT work?
>    What about the aforementioned ACL/Shared folders? I'm getting into a
crux
> that I may need it and courier-imap-/-cyrus-imap will do my trick but,
dovecot
> smokes them on performance! (Especially with horde/imp's preview/info
stuff)
ACLs won't come before 1.0. Shared folders can be kind of kludged with
symlinks, but with 0.99.10 the files are always created with 0600 mode,
so all your users would have to use the same UID or it won't work.
1.0-tests support specifying the mode.

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Wonderful! Thanks for the response and the great software Timo!
--
> It should work. You could try with maildir_stat_dirs = yes to be sure,
> but it shouldn't matter.
--
Even with mail_stat_dirs = yes and mail_full_filesystem_access = yes it still
doesn't.. I'm using horde/imp which may be doing strange commands for
listing
and I'll look into it more.. Any other ideas?
-
> ACLs won't come before 1.0. Shared folders can be kind of kludged with
> symlinks, but with 0.99.10 the files are always created with 0600 mode,
> so all your users would have to use the same UID or it won't work.
> 1.0-tests support specifying the mode.
-

I'm using horde's vilma mail adaministration backend into mysql in 
which postfix
and dovecot plug into. So, as far as unix uid/gid & perms go, things 
work 'okay'
for me in that regard.

ACL support is greatly anticipated, considering the wonderful performance
advantages of dovecot over the other ACL-enabled imapd's.

Thanks, Chris