On Wed 28 Nov 2012 11:01:23 AM GMT, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 
> On 28.11.2012, at 10.57, Jost Krieger wrote:
> 
> I think it would be possible. I already added some code for that, but 
> apparently it wasn't enough and I stopped because it's a pretty low priority 
> issue.. Anyway, I think the code changes would be pretty easy to do. So start 
> finding the problematic parts and fixing them and sending me patches. :)

Will try, but don't hold your breath :-)
 
> > Our currents solution (in test) is a quick and dirty patch to introduce
> > inheritance to the ACLs by walking up the directory tree, so we need
> > only one ACL.
> 
> For a long time I've wanted a "default acl" file that applies to the whole 
> namespace. Never got around to implementing that either.

We'll at least post the patch.

> Anyway, ACLs don't help when the reading code itself decides to write to 
> indexes (which it does).

That's not so important for us, we don't want to protect the snapshot
from dovecot, but from user stupidity^Wintervention, like: "But I need
that mails, that I moved over yesterday from the snapshot and that are
gone now, again."
 
Yours
Jost Krieger
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