[Dovecot] ACL Groups

[Daniel L. Miller]

On 6/15/2011 10:42 PM, Willie Gillespie wrote:
> On 6/14/2011 2:18 PM, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
>>  From the wiki:
>>
>> ACL groups support works by returning a comma-separated acl_groups extra
>> field <http://wiki2.dovecot.org/UserDatabase/ExtraFields> from userdb,
>> which contains all the groups the user belongs to. User's UNIX groups
>> have no effect on ACLs (you can "enable" them by using a special
>> post-login script <http://wiki2.dovecot.org/PostLoginScripting>).
>>
>>
>> I've read that over several times - I still don't understand that. Are
>> "ACL Groups" defined and managed by Dovecot - and described somewhere
>> else in the docs - or are they UNIX groups that previously had no affect
>> on mail access but by being listed in the "acl_groups" field they now
>> have relevance?
>
> That is a bit confusing.  What it is trying to say:
> For one, you have acl_groups.
> For two, you have UNIX groups.
> They are not related at all.
> If you want them to be related, you can use a special post-login script.

Ok - so where are acl_groups, and their access, defined?
-- 
Daniel