[Dovecot] Problem with dovecot-acl

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 23:26 +0400, dss wrote:
> I have a problem with dovecot-acl. Some of our users need to use the
> same Mailbox with all folders: Inbox (with subfolders), Outbox, Send
> and Deleted, (some users need in full righs, some - readonly) so I
> choosed Symlinking mailboxes and tried to use dovecot-acl file.

This is only a problem with symlinked mailboxes, because Dovecot thinks
you own the mailbox and uses "allow everything" as the default ACL.

> cat dovecot-acl:
> user=t1 lrwsti
> user=operolegs lrwsti
> user=operantona lrwsti
> user=operdss lr
> 
> User operdss have lrwsti rights in this shared mailbox unstead of lr! But if I comment out other users in the dovecot-acl:
> 
> #user=t1 lrwsti
> #user=operolegs lrwsti
> #user=operantona lrwsti
> user=operdss lr

I'll try to get this fixed properly tomorrow, but for now you can work
around it by first removing all rights from owner:

owner
user=t1 ...
user=...