authenticate as userA, but get authorization to user userB's account

[Thomas Leuxner]

* Heiko Schlittermann <hs at schlittermann.de> 2017.10.25 12:58:

> Question: Is there any way to split the authentication from the
> authorization within common mail clients (as Thunderbird) in combination
> with Dovecot. That is, doing something like logging in to the
> account sales at example.com, using the credentials of the very own account
> (say hans at example.com)?

Hi,

wouldn't this be a use case for acl_groups, where a user would belong to group "Sales" and this "role" would gain specific access?

Regards
Thomas
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