From: Joshua E Warchol (no email)
Date: Sun Feb 03 2002 - 11:02:41 EST
It works really well too. I've got postfix creating a
mailbox tree 4 or 5 levels deep:
's maildir is stored in:
/mnt/mail/d/o/domain.com/joe/
This works really well, and keeps the number of entries per
direcotry manageable. Postfix creates everything after
/mnt/mail (which is an nfs share)
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 11:11:45AM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote:
> This all works as you describe, provided that directory permissions
> are correctly configured: the recipient uid and/or gid must have write
> permission.
>
> Postfix will not create a directory in a world-writable directory,
> because that is a security hole.
>
> Wietse
>
> George Barbarosie:
> > On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 22:33, Wietse Venema wrote:
> >
> > > Yes. This requires that you set directory permissions correctly. The
> > > userid that receives the mail must be able to create the necessary
> > > directory and files.
> >
> > This can be useful for many setups like the one described by Michel.
> >
> > Does this work on multiple dir levels? I mean, if the 'parent' directory
> > does not exist but can be created by the virtual user, will it be
> > created along with the maildir? I think it will not, but correct me if I
> > am wrong.
> >
> > There are situations where this directory tree automatic creation may be
> > useful, for example when dealing with tons of maildirs for each domain,
> > one may decide to create subdirs based on the first couple of letters of
> > the accounts, similar to what caching programs frequently do.
> >
> > Thx,
> > georgeb
> >
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