Re: [webmin-devel] Adding a folder to the mailbox module in Usermin

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

Joe Cooper wrote:
> Jamie Cameron wrote:
> 
>> Joe Cooper wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jamie,
>>>
>>> I have developed a spam filter Usermin module (frontend for 
>>> SpamBayes, SpamBouncer, and some custom Procmail recipes), and the 
>>> way it is trained is by moving spams into a Junk mbox in the users 
>>> home directory.
>>>
>>> If I add this folder manually to the Usermin folders using the Manage 
>>> folders page, things work fine, and I'm able to dump spams into the 
>>> box using Usermin.
>>>
>>> Is there a reasonably standard way I can add this box to the boxes 
>>> managed by the mailbox module when the user first enables the spam 
>>> filtering module?  I see the following in the .usermin/mailbox/config 
>>> file:
>>>
>>> mailboxes=/home/joe/Junk
>>> folder_/home/joe/Junk=Junk
>>>
>>> Is this all Usermin needs?  Is there a routine I should call, or just 
>>> add it via parsing the config file myself?
>>
>>
>>
>> That's all Usermin needs, and there is no function for simplifying 
>> folder addition (although the read_file and write_file standard 
>> functions make editing name=value files like that easier).
>>
>> By the way, you could also add a folder by creating a file in ~/mail , 
>> since everything in that directory is automatically picked up by Usermin.
> 
> 
> We will always have a ~/Junk mbox.  This has to exist for all of the 
> other stuff to work (including IMAP users, etc.).  I thought of creating 
> a symbolic link to that from ~/mail, which also seems to work.  Do you 
> see any trouble with going that route instead?

That should work OK as well, as usermin does not use trick of writing 
to a temp file and then re-naming it to the original mailbox when 
deleting .. at least, not yet.

  - Jamie