i can not impliment a basic acl to a /public/.News folder. however with out ACL it works great but after implementing acl "Public" folder can be seen while subscribing but i can not create folder inside it nor i can view already created ".News" folder.

when i restart dovecot it shows me some thing like this

root@mailsrv:/public/.News# /etc/init.d/dovecot restart Restarting IMAP/POP3 mail server: dovecotILoading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap IModule loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so IModule loaded: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib02_imap_acl_plugin.so IEffective uid=65534, gid=65534, home=/tmp Iacl: No acl_shared_dict setting - shared mailbox listing is disabled

root@mailsrv:/public/.News# dovecot -n # 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Debian 6.0.6 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/postfix.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/postfix.key login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir:INBOX=~/Maildir/:INDEX=~/Maildir/index mail_debug: yes mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_plugins: acl imap_acl namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: public separator: / prefix: Public/ location: maildir:/public:INDEX=/public/index list: yes subscriptions: yes lda: mail_plugins: acl auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix plugin: acl: vfile

as i read in few howto's that "dovecot-acl" file should be placed in the mail publish folder like in my case "/public/.News/dovecot-acl"

here is the output of my file root@mailsrv:/public/.News# cat dovecot-acl owner lrwstipekxa anyone= lr

now after this implimentation i can see the folder "Public" in subscription now when i try to create a new folder inside ".News" folder via outlook 2007 it says "cannot move the item. the server responded: 'NOPERM] Permission denied"

i think i am messed up permission

actually i have 2 users "tom" and "fmaster"

both doing the same thing.

weather i write this "anyone lrwstpekxa" or "user=tom lrwstpekxa" it does the same for both user

what i want is just a simple thing. i want tom to be the owner of .News and fmaster has read only. so he can only read the news but can not delete even can not change the flag to read or unread.

Note: both are system users (not virtual users)

Nov 30 20:50:42 mailsrv dovecot: IMAP(fmaster): open(/public/.News/dovecot-uidlist) failed: Permission denied Nov 30 20:50:42 mailsrv dovecot: IMAP(fmaster): open(/public/.News/dovecot-uidlist) failed: Permission denied Nov 30 20:54:45 mailsrv dovecot: IMAP(fmaster): open(/public/index/.News/dovecot.index.log) failed: Permission denied (euid=1001(fmaster) egid=1001(fmaster) missing +w perm: /public/index/.News/dovecot.index.log) Nov 30 20:54:50 mailsrv dovecot: IMAP(fmaster): open(/public/index/.News/dovecot.index.log) failed: Permission denied (euid=1001(fmaster) egid=1001(fmaster) missing +w perm: /public/index/.News/dovecot.index.log)

i thought its a system level permission issue so i pass this command "chmod 777 /public -R" but still i receive the same outlook error but no errors in /var/log/mail.err.

please hell me what kind of user right should be on the .News folder. for example, tom or root which one should have the "rwx" rights on the folder. and what kind of changes should i made in deovecot-acl

any help, tip would be highly appreciated.

Thanks,