Deleting Public Mailbox?

Dag Nygren dag at newtech.fi
Thu Dec 17 10:21:28 UTC 2015


Hi!

What am I doing wrong here?

Mission: Delete old empty sub mailboxes in our Public mailspace

acl-file contents:

MailingLists user=dag        lrwstipekxa
MailingLists/* user=dag        lrwstipekxa

Didn't work from my mail client so tried:

Command tried:

% doveadm mailbox delete -s MailingLists/Glibc -u dag
doveadm(dag): Error: Can't delete mailbox MailingLists/Glibc: Permission denied

% doveadm acl debug -u dag "MailingLists/Egcs"
doveadm(dag): Info: Mailbox 'Egcs' is in namespace 'MailingLists/'
doveadm(dag): Info: Mailbox path: /usr/local/var/mail/MailingLists/mailboxes/Egcs/dbox-Mails
doveadm(dag): Info: All message flags are shared across users in mailbox
doveadm(dag): Info: User dag has rights: lookup read write write-seen write-deleted insert post expunge create delete admin
doveadm(dag): Error: Mailbox not found from dovecot-acl-list, rebuilding
doveadm(dag): Info: Mailbox is in public namespace
doveadm(dag): Info: Mailbox MailingLists/Egcs is visible in LIST

Must be a config I have wrong.
Would like to get rid of them...

Best
Dag



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