R: sieve_admins imapd.conf option

[Alain Spineux]

On Nov 7, 2007 2:56 PM, Toschi Pietro <Pietro.Toschi at actalis.it> wrote:
> Ok, I see.
> But I wasn't able to find any source file in cyrus source tree that reads that config option! Since it actually results correctly used, I expected that at least one source file (maybe related to the <service> module) loads and evaluates it.
> Or am I missing something?

if the option contains a "_" and the first part match a service then
use the right part of the option name as the option for this service !
You should not see any sieve_admins or imap_admins in the source
themself. Just "sieve", "imap" and "admins"

Hacker's live is not always easy, and "grep" in not always enough.

Regards

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> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: Alain Spineux [mailto:aspineux at gmail.com]
> Inviato: martedì 6 novembre 2007 18.38
> A: Toschi Pietro
> Cc: Cyrus Mailing List
> Oggetto: Re: sieve_admins imapd.conf option
>
> On Nov 6, 2007 5:46 PM, Toschi Pietro <Pietro.Toschi at actalis.it> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all.
> >
> > While playing with smartsieve I've encountered an unknown imapd.conf
> > option named sieve_admins. Looking at the docs (cyrus 2.3.10) didn't
> > help. Looking at imapopts.c didn't either.
> > It is used to list those users that are allowed to authenticate as
> > themselves but get authorized as other users while performing SIEVE
> > management actions (and only that kind of actions, they do not admin
> > mailboxes for example). Very useful and apparently perfectly working.
>
> options in imapd.conf are used by multiple cyrus daemon.
> They can be named
>
> <service>_<option_name>
>
> where <service> is one of the cyrus daemon
>
> Then if you have
>
> admins: foo
> imap_admins: bar
>
> sieve will use the global option with value "foo"
> and imapd will use the more specific to itself "bar"
>
>
>
>
>
> >
> > My question is: how this option is used by cyrus? What cyrus component
> > loads and evaluates it apart from smartsieve web app?
> >
> > Indeed: googleing I've found another undocumented imapd.conf option:
> > imap_admins. Any info about that?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Pietro
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