On 28/01/2014, at 6:37 PM, Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot@smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:

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On Fri, 24 Jan 2014, Alex Ferrara wrote:

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I have been able to get the inbox of the shared mailbox to appear in Thunderbird, but I would like to allow all subfolders to have the same ACLs. Is there a way to do this without having an ACL entry for each folder in the dovecot-acl file?

No, currently you need one file per mailbox.

Thanks for the pointer Steffen. Since I am migrating from an established Cyrus installation, I thought that I would be smart about this and make a little script. I have made the script available at the bottom of this message if anyone is interested.

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                            I also cannot seem to create folders

under the shared inbox.

If the accessing user has the "k"-permission, there might be problems with the unix file permissions. Latter logs errors. I think I remember something that you cannot give ACLs to the top most root of some mail storages, e.g. in Maildir Maildir/dovecot-acl applies to the INBOX and there is no file for the "/" or something like that. Can you create a new mailbox below, say, the INBOX?

This is still a problem for me. I can create folders on subfolders of the shared folder, but not under the shared folder itself. I have set "mail_shared_explicit_inbox = no" so the shared folder is the inbox.

If I change "mail_shared_explicit_inbox = yes" then I can create folders underneath the inbox, but still not in the top level. Folders that are already there from the migration work fine. The current configuration I have does not have an inbox per shared mailbox, so I would prefer to replicate that if possible.

I am a little unsure what to try next as I have turned on debug logging and there is no entry in the logs when I unsuccessfully try to create a folder under the top level.

dupacl.sh

#!/bin/bash

IFS_BAK=$IFS IFS=" "

MAILROOT='/mnt/mail/mailboxes' MAILUSER='vmail' MAILGROUP='vmail' SHAREDFILE='/etc/dovecot/shared-mailboxes'

function usage { echo -e "Dovecot ACL tool\n" echo -e "The purpose of this tool is to clone the ACL of the inbox to all child folders\n" echo -e "$0 [ mailbox | -all | -new ]" exit 1 }

function cloneacl { MAILBOX="$MAILROOT/$1/Maildir" ACLFILE="$MAILBOX/dovecot-acl"

if [ -d "$MAILBOX" ]; then echo "Working on mailbox $1..."

# Make sure we have an ACL file
if [ -f "$ACLFILE" ]; then
  if [ "$2" == "-new" ]; then
    echo "Found ACL file in mailbox $1. Skipping"
    return
  fi
else
  echo "ACL file does not exist. Creating one"
  echo "group=$1 lrwstipekxa" > "$ACLFILE"
  chown $MAILUSER:$MAILGROUP "$ACLFILE"
fi

# Copy the ACL file to sub directories
for dir in `find $MAILBOX -type d -name ".*"`; do
  cp -av $MAILBOX/dovecot-acl "$dir/"
done

# Remove the dovecot-acl-list to make the mailboxes appear
if [ -f "$ACLFILE-list" ]; then
  rm "$ACLFILE-list"
fi

else echo "Mailbox $1 does not exist" exit 1 fi }

if [ "$1" == "-all" -o "$1" == "-new" ]; then SHARED=grep shared/ "$SHAREDFILE" | cut -d / -f 4

for mailbox in $SHARED; do cloneacl $mailbox $1 done elif [ $1 ];then cloneacl $1 -single else usage fi

IFS=$IFS_BAK IFS_BAK=