How do I share folders ?

[chaouche yacine]

Thanks Steffen. I went the quick'n'dirty way described at : http://wiki2.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes/Symlinks and I must say it works fine as far as I have tested.

Here's what I did : 


$ cd /var/vmail/algerian-radio.dz/a.chaouche/

$ ln -s /var/vmail/backup.algerian-radio.dz/a.chaouche/ .shared.a_chaouche at backup_algerian-radio_dz  <---- change "." to "_"

If I didn't change the dots they would appear as subfolder separators to dovecot (Maildir++ specs ? )

If you do this then a.chaouche at algerian-radio.dz can do whatever he wants with a.chaouche at backup.algerian-radio.dz mailbox. We don't want this. We want him to only read the mail, not delete it. For this, he needs two permissions : reading of course and listing, because he needs to list the emails in order to choose which one he wants to read. If he doesn't have the listing permission then the MUA would get an error when it tries to list all the messages in the inbox.


We do this by adding a dovecot-acl file in the mailbox we want to share : 


root at messagerie[10.10.10.20] /var/vmail/backup.algerian-radio.dz/a.chaouche # cat dovecot-acl
user=a.chaouche at algerian-radio.dz lr
root at messagerie[10.10.10.20] /var/vmail/backup.algerian-radio.dz/a.chaouche # 

This says that user a.chaouche at algerian-radio.dz has the "l" right (listing) and the "r" right (reading).

You can make sure that it's setup as expected with the acl tool : 


root at messagerie[10.10.10.20] ~ # doveadm acl get  -u a.chaouche at algerian-radio.dz INBOX.shared.a_chaouche at backup_algerian-radio_dz 
ID                                Global Rights 
user=a.chaouche at algerian-radio.dz        lookup read 
root at messagerie[10.10.10.20] ~ # 


1. No need for SQL tables
2. No need for dictionary mappings
3. No need for doveadm acl commands

Yassine.


________________________________
From: Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de>
To: chaouche yacine <yacinechaouche at yahoo.com> 
Cc: "dovecot at dovecot.org" <dovecot at dovecot.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: How do I share folders ?


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On Wed, 11 May 2016, chaouche yacine wrote:

> namespace inbox {

>  prefix = INBOX.
>  separator = .

^^^^^^^^

>  type = private
> }
> namespace partage {
>  hidden = no
>  location = maildir:%%h:INDEX=~/%%u
>  prefix = shared.%%u.

^^^^^^^^^

>  separator = .
>  type = shared
> }

looks fine for me,

> I don't know if it's possible to share folders with the doveadm acl command ?
> root at messagerie[10.10.10.20] ~ # doveadm acl debug  -u a.chaouche at algerian-radio.dz shared/a.chaouche at backup.algerian-radio.dz
> doveadm(a.chaouche at algerian-radio.dz): Error: Can't open mailbox shared/a.chaouche at backup.algerian-radio.dz: Mailbox doesn't exist: shared/a.chaouche at backup.algerian-radio.dz

you are using the dot as separator, that is:

shared/a.chaouche at backup. should spell


shared.a.chaouche at backup.

However, because there are dots in the username, too, this probably won't 
work, because Dovecot probably picks up "a" as username.

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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