[Dovecot] Dovecot ACLs

[Timo Sirainen]

On Apr 2, 2009, at 10:10 PM, dovecot at corwyn.net wrote:

> At 06:21 PM 4/2/2009, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> > What I'd like to do is add an ACL such that all users can
>> > read/delete/move mail that's in the spam folder, but not delete it.
>> > Am I going to have to create an entry for every single user, or is
>> > there a way to do it once, for all .Spam folders?
>>
>> > I've read through http://wiki.dovecot.org/ACL  and can't quite get
>> > this as the last step.
>>
>> See the section about global ACLs.
>
> Apologies, but I did (several times), and still don't find the  
> answer to my question.

Hmm. I'm not really sure how to explain it better than it currently is  
there. I changed the initial wording now, but .. what was the most  
difficult thing to understand there and how could it be improved?

> I can't seem to make the relationship in the wiki between the user  
> permissions, and the actual folder location. And it doesn't speak to  
> whether I can resolve this for a global setting (all /var/spool/mail/ 
> */*/.Spam) folders.

acl = vfile:/etc/dovecot/acls

Then create /etc/dovecot/acls/Spam file, which is in the same format  
as dovecot-acl files. Set up the wanted permissions for "owner".