[Dovecot] virtual plugin and ACL

Nikita Koshikov koshikov at gmail.com
Mon Aug 10 10:41:17 EEST 2009


On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:23:32 -0400
Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> That's because in private namespaces user owns the mails, and
> "authenticated" doesn't reduce the user's privileges. You could use
> "owner" instead.
> 
> Also I don't think you should use ACLs at all here. It's easier and more
> secure to just make /var/mail/virtual non-writable to imap process. For
> example change file/dir owners to root and make them world-readable.

Thank you, Timo.

Both variants are working fine for me.


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