[ archivemail-Feature Requests-3365625 ] Support for automatic setuid

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Feature Requests item #3365625, was opened at 2011-07-12 22:00
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Status: Closed
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: apptaro (apptaro)
Assigned to: Nikolaus Schulz (nikosch)
Summary: Support for automatic setuid

Initial Comment:
As described in the bug #3063535 (is owned by someone else!) archivemail version 0.7.2+ does not do setuid when archivemail is run by root and the target mailbox is owned by someone else. I need this functionality.

My mail server is configured so that spam messages are automatically moved to a spam folder for each users. I want to use archivemail to delete old messages from each user's spam folder like this:
archivemail --days=30 --delete --include-flagged /home/*/Mail/Spam
but I get "/home/username/Mail/Spam is owned by someone else!" error.

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2012-08-28 18:29

Message:
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Comment By: Nikolaus Schulz (nikosch)
Date: 2011-07-13 15:45

Message:
Yes, basically, in your case you are required to write some sort of a
script. 

Not that convenient, but it puts you in control, and it's much better than
such a setuid feature, which existed in archivemail up to v0.8.0, and was
removed for a reason.

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Comment By: apptaro (apptaro)
Date: 2011-07-12 23:14

Message:
For now, I created a script such as below to do the job. Maybe this is
enough.

#!/bin/sh
ls /home | while read line
ARCMAIL="/usr/bin/archivemail --delete --include-flagged --quiet"
do
  USER="$line"
  MAILBOX="/home/$USER/Mail/Spam"
  if [ -f $MAILBOX ] ; then
    sudo -u $USER $ARCMAIL $MAILBOX
  fi
done


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