Deleting Public Mailbox?

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de
Thu Dec 17 11:12:56 UTC 2015


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On Thu, 17 Dec 2015, Dag Nygren wrote:

> 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

This looks like problems with the file system permissions.

>
> % 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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Steffen Kaiser
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