On 04/02/2021 17:20 Adrian adrian@aeolian.org.uk wrote:
Hello,
I have had Dovecot set up to use PAM authentication, as my current users all have system accounts on Debian.
I've just moved over to passwdfile authentication, because I want to add new users who won't have logins on the system. This is working fine with my existing users.
Now, the problem is that I want the new users to share the SAME (Maildir) 'mailbox'.
Currently 10-mail.conf contains mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/%u:LAYOUT=fs
so this needs to be overridden, or I need some new way of mapping users to mail locations.
I could probably do it with symlinks from /var/mail/newuser to /var/mail/mail-location
but there may be a better way to do it than that. I'd like it to be in a file, not needing mySQL or other database.
Lastly, are there any implications for locking? These will be used rarely but if a second user logs in for the same mailbox they should get a lock error.
dovecot -n # 2.3.4.1 (f79e8e7e4): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.4 () # OS: Linux 4.19.0-11-amd64 x86_64 Debian 10.7 ext4 # Hostname: example.com disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/%u:LAYOUT=fs
Thanks in advance
How about using mailbox sharing instead?
https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/namespace/#dovecot-support-for-...
Aki