[Dovecot] Setting up ACL for IMAP

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue May 25 19:06:55 EEST 2010


On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 15:08 -0300, Andrés Gattinoni wrote:

> I just suscribed cause I'm trying to do something which I'm not sure how.
> I need to prevent some accounts from deleting there emails.
> >From what I've seen [0] this could be achieved by using ACL.
> My first question is, is this right? Is there a way to achieve the
> same using POP3?

acl plugin works with pop3 too.

> I get the following error:
> May 14 14:54:52 mail dovecot: SIGHUP received - reloading configuration
> May 14 14:54:52 mail dovecot: imap dump-capability: Couldn't read
> capability (got 0 bytes)

This is kind of a bug. If you enable plugins, you need to restart
Dovecot (not reload).

> Looking on the internet I found out that I don't have the imap_acl lib
> shared object.

You don't need to use imap_acl.



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