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[OX User] Ordering IMAP Folders

Philip Kaspar philip.kaspar at stiftung-buehl.ch
Wed Apr 18 15:50:17 CEST 2007


Am Mi 18.04.2007 11:04 schrieb Martin Werthmoeller <mw at lw-systems.de>:

>Am Tue, 17 Apr 2007 um 17:30 GMT +0200 schrieb Philip Kaspar:
>>Hallo Together
>>
>Hello Philip,
>
>>I have created a new mail folder for all 200 users in the firm.
>>Now all 200 users have to subscribe for that new folder before they
>>can
>>use it.
>>Is that not bullshit? But there seems no other way to free the folder
>>by
>>the Administrator then to instruct all 200 users how to subscribe for
>>the new folder themselfe.
>>
>No. Thats specified at the IMAP RFCs. Open-Xchange uses IMAP, but it
>has
>not defined this standard.
>
>>Where can I activate the folders in the database?
>>If this is not in the database is that configured in a file? Or in
>>ldap?
>>Or where the hell?
>>
>That depends on the IMAP server. On cyrus it stored at the
>$USERNAME.sub
>files at the config directory of each user. For a one-time job, you
>could
>create a script, that will add your new folder to this file. The
>folders
>are stored in alpabethically order. Thats very important!
>
>Than should down your cyrus daemon and run the script.
>
>Another approach on cyrus could be done with SASL proxy authentication.
>The cyrus admin tools have the ability to authenticate as the mail
>administrator user, but will perform some operations as another user
>(like
>setuid(2)). The cyrus admin tools are connecting the service via IMAP,
>thus you could look for an easy approach to do this by a script via
>IMAP.
>
>
>On dovecot, you should look at the file .subscriptions at the base
>Maildir
>folder of each mailbox. This files contains the subscribed folders.
>
>But I want you to call attention, that this approaches are only hacks!
>
>Best regards,
>Martin Werthmoeller
>
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>LWsystems - IT-Service and Consulting
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Thanks to you and Philip Baumann
It is working.

Best regards,

philip




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