global sieve folder ... ?

[Marc G. Fournier]

--On Wednesday, August 16, 2006 09:20:23 -0400 Zachariah Mully 
<zmully at smartbrief.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 00:04 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Ken Murchison wrote:
>>
>> > Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> >>
>> >> This is the first time I've ever seen this ... when I put a filter in for
>> >> an account that happens to be listed in the 'admins' section of
>> >> imapd.conf,  it is putting the filter into a global directory, instead of
>> >> the admin  sieve directory ...
>> >>
>> >> I've been doing this for years, where the 'admin' account is a catchall
>> >> mailbox, created by defualt with new domains, and for those clients that
>> >> just want to forward all email to another address, they just create a
>> >> filter on that account, instead of creating other mailboxes ...
>> >>
>> >> Why is it all of sudden starting to create this global directory, and how
>> >> do I make it stop? :)
>> >
>> > Admins aren't supposed to be regular users, meaning they aren't supposed
>> > to  have INBOXes or sieve scripts.  It has said this in the docs for a
>> > quite  while (perhaps as far back as v1.6?).
>> >
>> > Cyrus 2.3 and recent 2.2 releases allow sieve scripts to be placed on
>> > shared  mailboxes.  This is done by authenticating to timsieved as an
>> > admin, which  then places scripts in the global/ namespace.
>>
>> Great, now I have to change my whole mail system *sniffle*
>>
>> This is going to be fun :(
>
> Umh, why? Can't you simply name another user (perhaps 'mailadmin' or
> something like that) as the administrator in the cyrus config? Why are
> you giving clients admin rights?

We run VPSs ... each VPS has their own cyrus instance running, one instance per 
client ... each cyrus instance can run multiple domains (virt-domains), and 
each one of the owners of the domain has the ability to create/remove accounts 
...

So ... I had to modify all of the various scripts to connect for admin as 
'cyrus' vs 'admin' (done) and the GUI interface as well ... the GUI interfce 
was easy, since its in one place ... the scripts are more fun, since we 
currently have >300 VPSs that need to be 'upgraded' ...

Time consuming mostly ...


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