Re: [Courier-imap] Users automatically subscribed to shared folders?

[Sam V. <mr...@co...>]

Anders Kvist writes:

> On 06/10/2014 01:04 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > Anders Kvist writes:
> >
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> We've been having some problems with users getting subscribed to shared
> >> folders automatically (???), so I've been digging a bit...
> >>
> >> It seems that some clients sends a STATUS or SELECT on some or all
> >> folders, even tough they are not subscribed to those. But afterwards,
> >> the folders are subscribed - does this make sense?
> >
> > This is for filesystem-permission based shared folders only. Since
> > they require to be manually set up on the filesystem side, they get
> > automatically subscribed to; on the presumption that the shared
> > folders wouldn't get set up in the first place, if they don't want to
> > be subscribed to.
>
> So, switching to virtual shared folders might solve this?

Yes. Note that virtual shared folders require that, basically, all mailboxes  
are owned by the same system userid and groupid.