[Dovecot] How to lock a user out?

[Geo Carncross]

No.

The idea is that:

1. mail is delivered normally. to ~/mbox
2. dovecot looks in ~/.dovebox which is NORMALLY a symlink to ~
but when you want to lock someone out, ~/.dovebox is a symlink to that
directory.


Consider: what if they have multiple mailboxes/folders? Should those be
visible? If so, do what you suggest, otherwise do what I suggest :)

On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 11:28 -0600, Kai Wang wrote:
> Good idea.
> 
> The INBOX is always a symbolic link. For a unlocked user, it points to a 
> hidden file ~/.dovebox/mbox. For a locked user, it points to another 
> hidden ~/.lockdir/mbox. Postfix/procmail always delivers messages to 
> ~/.dovebox/mbox.
> 
> Thank you very much
> Kai
> 
> Geo Carncross wrote:
> 
> >1. tell dovecot to look for messages in ~/.dovebox/mbox using
> >mailbox_env
> >
> >2. ln -s ~ ~/.dovebox for all users.
> >
> >3. to lock user, rm -f ~/.dovebox && ln -s ~/.lockdir ~/.dovebox
> >
> >4. to unlock user, rm -f ~/.dovebox && ln -s ~ ~/.dovebox
> >
> >
> >
> >On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 16:03 -0600, Kai Wang wrote:
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>We are considering to migrate to Dovecot. We can running uw-imap and 
> >>have a local path which allow us to lock a user by creating a .lockdir 
> >>directory in the user home directory and put our warning message to 
> >>.lockdir/mbox. The locked user can still receive messages in ~/mbox. But 
> >>can not access any messages except ~/.lockdir/mbox. I wonder if Dovecot 
> >>has any similar feature which we can use to lock a user out without 
> >>affecting the mail delivery?
> >>
> >>Kai Wang
> >>University of Calgary
> >>
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