On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 00:04 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Ken Murchison wrote: > > > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > >> > >> This is the first time I've ever seen this ... when I put a filter in for > >> an account that happens to be listed in the 'admins' section of > >> imapd.conf, > >> it is putting the filter into a global directory, instead of the admin > >> sieve directory ... > >> > >> I've been doing this for years, where the 'admin' account is a catchall > >> mailbox, created by defualt with new domains, and for those clients that > >> just want to forward all email to another address, they just create a > >> filter on that account, instead of creating other mailboxes ... > >> > >> Why is it all of sudden starting to create this global directory, and how > >> do I make it stop? :) > > > > Admins aren't supposed to be regular users, meaning they aren't supposed to > > have INBOXes or sieve scripts. It has said this in the docs for a quite > > while (perhaps as far back as v1.6?). > > > > Cyrus 2.3 and recent 2.2 releases allow sieve scripts to be placed on > > shared > > mailboxes. This is done by authenticating to timsieved as an admin, which > > then places scripts in the global/ namespace. > > Great, now I have to change my whole mail system *sniffle* > > This is going to be fun :(
Umh, why? Can't you simply name another user (perhaps 'mailadmin' or something like that) as the administrator in the cyrus config? Why are you giving clients admin rights? Z ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
