As per the top of http://wiki1.dovecot.org/ACL you need to set mail_plugins in order to use acls, as acl support is via a plugin, not a core piece of dovecot.

-Greg

On 2011-06-17 8:57 AM, kumar shantanu wrote:

Hi Gregory,

this is the output from dovecot -n

1.1.20: /etc/dovecot.conf

OS: Linux 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5 i686 CentOS release 5.5 (Final) ext3

base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imap imaps listen: *:143 ssl_listen: *:943 login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_greeting: READY. login_processes_count: 2 mail_location: maildir:/mail/%d/%n/Maildir mail_debug: yes namespace: type: public separator: / prefix: Public/ location: maildir:/var/mail/public list: yes namespace: type: private separator: / location: maildir:/mail/%d/%n/Maildir inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes lda: postmaster_address: postmaster@example.com auth default: verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf plugin: acl: vfile

Thanks Shantanu

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Gregory Finch <gfinch@ldmltd.ca> wrote:

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On 2011-06-17 8:29 AM, kumar shantanu wrote:

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Hi All,

I am trying to do ACL enabled Public folder on dovecot version 1.1.20, but the ACL thing is not working, the public folder is visible and accessible to everyone.

My dovecot config for public folder is like

######## namespace public { separator = / prefix = Public/ location = maildir:/var/mail/public subscriptions = no } plugin { acl = vfile } #########

and I have my dovecot-acl file in /var/mail/public/.test which reads ** user=test@mydomain.com lrw ** but every user can see the public folders and subscribe to it, which I don't want :(

Can someone please suggest.

Thanks in Advance, Shantanu

suggestion #1: post the output of dovecot -n

-Greg