On 18/05/10 18:47, Wesley Craig wrote: > Seems like a reasonable approach and a good patch. I might suggest > some feedback, preferably to the deleting / renaming user but a > syslog might also do, when the delete / rename failed. My patch returns IMAP_MAILBOX_NOTSUPPORTED to the client. I can add a syslog call if people think that would be useful. > Is there a bugzilla number? #3220. > :wes > > On 18 May 2010, at 12:38, Stephen Grier wrote: >> Just submitting a patch I'm supporting locally for consideration. >> >> We use shared mailboxes quite extensively for role-based >> communication. >> For quite some time we've had a problem with users deleting or >> renaming >> mailboxes into which we deliver mail. We can, and do, use IMAP ACLs to >> dissallow users from deleting the delivery target mailbox. But when a >> user creates a child mailbox it inherits the ACLs of the parent, >> and the >> user is then not able to delete or rename the sub folder. >> >> As a fix, I have written a patch against 2.3.16 to add a new >> lmtptarget >> mailbox annotation. When enabled, Cyrus won't allow the mailbox to be >> deleted or renamed. We can then set whatever ACLs we want inherited by >> child mailboxes, happy in the knowledge the user won't blat the >> mailbox >> and cause mail to bounce. >> >> The rationale here is that Cyrus treats user.foo with special >> significance as a delivery target, but does not do the same for shared >> mailboxes because there is no way for Cyrus to know which shared >> mailboxes we intend to deliver mail into. Using a mailbox annotation >> seems a nice way of flagging this. >> >> Patch attached. Comments welcome. > ---- > Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ > Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki > List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html -- Stephen Grier Systems Developer IT Services Queen Mary, University of London ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
