On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 22:36 -0500, Rob Nichols wrote:
I've been using dovecot for a year or two now, and really like it. I have a fairly simple setup, but I think it's time to get a little more advanced. I keep an "archive" of all my email, both sent and received. Every once in a while I get confused, and accidentally delete something from my archive. I also worry that I'll misconfigure a mail client some day and accidentally wipe out my "trash" folder. I would like some way to prevent deletion in several mailboxes. Is that possible? It looks like ACL could do this, but I can't quite figure out where to start. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
There are no recursive ACLs currently, so you'd have to create dovecot-acl file for each mailbox containing something like:
owner lrwstipka
i.e. removed 'e' and 'x' rights. http://wiki.dovecot.org/ACL tells some more.