Fwd: Mailbox sharing not working

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com
Thu Feb 17 09:17:59 UTC 2022


> On 17/02/2022 11:16 Kees van Vloten <keesvanvloten at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>  
> On 17-02-2022 10:02, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> >> On 17/02/2022 10:39 Kees van Vloten <keesvanvloten at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>   
> >> On 17-02-2022 09:16, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> >>>> On 17/02/2022 10:14 Kees van Vloten <keesvanvloten at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On 17-02-2022 07:28, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> >>>>>> On 16/02/2022 21:40 Kees van Vloten <keesvanvloten at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Hi Team,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I am trying to setup mailbox sharing. But although user test2 shares
> >>>>>> INBOX with test1, it is not visible for user1.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> doveadm  acl get -u test2 INBOX
> >>>>>> ID         Global Rights
> >>>>>> user=test1        admin create delete expunge insert lookup post read
> >>>>>> write write-deleted write-seen
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> cat /srv/mail/dovecot/lib/shared-mailboxes.db
> >>>>>> shared/shared-boxes/user/test1/test2 at example.com
> >>>>>> 1
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Log output:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> <snip />
> > I think your problem is that you are using test1 and test2 as usernames, but shared folder is for test2 at example.com
> >
> > The sharing must happen with same user names as your users are logging in.
> >
> > Aki
> 
> 
> Users are logging in with username only (and in most situations with a 
> krb5 ticket):
> 
> auth_username_format = %Lu
> 
> Is there a way to prevent sharing as the %n name (test2 at example.com)?
> 
> Or is the better approach to login with %n (and would that work with 
> gssapi login)?

Why not use auth_username_format=%Ln then?

Also consistently use %n instead of %u in your configuration. Also doveadm acl set -u test2 user=test1 and so on.

etc.

Aki


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