Defining Special Mailboxes like 'Inbox'

[Ken Murchison]

Scott Nickerson wrote:
> 
> I am writing a general question to ask if any cyrus administrators have
> accomplished this goal.
> 
> We are looking at setting up a very rudimentary server side delivery of
> messages to one of two places.  We would like to create a folder called
> 'SPAM' in each of our users mailboxes.  Since incoming email is being
> checked and spam tagged in the headers by another server, we would like
> to deliver the spam-tagged mail to the SPAM folder and everything else
> to the INBOX.
> 
> The question:  Is there a way in Cyrus to create a folder 'SPAM' that
> cannot be deleted by the end user so we know it will be there if we set
> up a filtering rule to deliver to such a folder?  Basically same sort of
> criteria the Inbox folder has.

There is no way to guarantee this in 2.1 or earlier because the owner is
always given enough implicit rights to get around it.  In 2.2 there is
an implicitrights option which can be used to limit these rights (eg,
remove 'a') and then you can remove the user's 'c' right from the SPAM
folder.

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