[Dovecot] Using Dovecot as Asterisk PBX voicemail server

[Andrew Girling]

On Nov 12, 2007, at 6:40 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> I'm reading the Asterisk book, 2nd edition, and it describes how one  
> can set up voicemail to be delivered by IMAP to a voicemail folder.

[snip]

> Or is there a way to set up Dovecot to allow a second user to login  
> to a specific IMAP folder in all accounts, in the same way the local  
> delivery agent has write access to all users' mailbox?

One possible solution is that you grant Asterisk access to the  
mailboxes with as a master user with a  (strong) master password.  See  
the wiki for more information:

http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/MasterUsers

-Andrew