raw access to imap quotas, with mail user

[Edward Rudd]

On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 18:32, Felix Cuello wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>    I wrote a small C program to access to quota files without ask cyrus. This
>    program run under mail group.
>    I noticed when something change in the mailbox [deleting mails, receiving
>    mails, etc] the /var/imap/quota permissions are resetted to:
> 
>    -rw-------  cyrus.mail
> 
>    Then mail users can't have read access to this files and my C program
>    doesn't have read access to the files.
> 
>    It is possible to change that?
Possible, yes, probable, no.  It's kinda insecure to do that, and relies
on the cyrus mail store being the same. it's better to go through the
channels provided by cyrus and not bypass them and go directly to the
store.

What's wrong with just making an imap connect to ask for the quota root?
(you don't have to run cyradm to check quatas..)
>    Thanks a lot,
> 
>    Félix
>    
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Edward Rudd <eddie at omegaware.com>
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