Re: [courier-users] Any alternatives to virtual user accounts for

Gordon Messmer wrote:

> Daniel Kasak wrote:
>
>>
>> I've discovered that the way I set the folders up will not work with
>> a newer courier-imap server,
>
>
> Why not?
>
That's the million-dollar question.

See my previous posts for what I'm trying to do. I actually *have* done
this - with courier - but then I discovered that after upgrading
courier, things went *very* wrong. When people went to drag an email
from their inbox into a shared folder, it would simply disappear. I was
told that the setup I was using was not supported, and only worked
previously via some kind of miracle. Whatever. It did work flawlessly
before.

We have so many clients ( and therefore shared folders ) that it's
simply not feasible to create a new top-level share for each one. So we
need a heirarchy of folders, broken up by the clients' ID into blocks of
100 clients per folder. For this, I need ( apparently ) virtual user
accounts, but this is not possible with our setup.

We will limp along like this for now. I'm investigating Cyrus and DBMail
- I'm leaning towards DBMail as I like the idea of being able to back
everything up at once - all our data is already in MySQL.

>> and now I'm in the precarious situation that I can't re-compile my
>> existing version ( don't know why ), against MySQL ... which I have
>> to do because I've upgraded MySQL and the client libraries have been
>> renamed. The situtation is becoming more desperate.
>
>
> I was under the impression that the wire protocol had not changed.
> You should be able to leave your old client libraries in place after
> the upgrade. You'll just have two versions of the runtime library
> installed.

No. MySQL keep bumping the version number of their client libraries.
From 4.0.x to 4.1.x they changed the authentication mechanism. I don't
know what they changed from 4.1.x to 5.0.x. But anyway, the client
libraries are not where stuff expects them ( because of the version
number bump ), so there are 2 solutions:

a) recompile, or:
b) sym-link the old library name to point at the new one

Option a) is impossible - the old version of courier-imap that we need
to support our unsupported shared folder setup no longer compiles for me.

Option b) is dodgy as hell.

I've obviously gone with option b), but I consider this an emergency
solution.

--
Daniel Kasak
IT Developer
NUS Consulting Group
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