[Dovecot] Help needed with plugin - Read Only access to IMAP mailbox
Chris Moules
chris at gms.lu
Wed Aug 25 18:54:38 EEST 2010
Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 15:51 +0200, Chris Moules wrote:
>>> I think you could pretty easily add support for "default ACL file" that
>>> is used instead of the internal ACL defaults. I've been planning on
>>> doing that at some point anyway. Maybe ~/Maildir/dovecot-acl-default or
>>> something.
>> So, that should be a patch to the current ACL plugin?
>
> Yes.
>
>> Any pointers on where to start with that? I only started on dovecot plugin programming yesterday. The ACL plugin seemed the most
>> complex so I avoided it for 'learning'.
>
> Hmm.. Now that I look at the code, the default ACL handling is a bit
> strange and I guess it needs some rethinking. But, I think for your
> purpose you can do it very easily. acl-backend.c contains:
>
> static const char *const owner_mailbox_rights[] = {
> ..
>
> Simply change that list to what rights you want to have (probably
> LOOKUP, READ).
>
Timo,
many thanks! A recompile with the below changes seems to do the trick!
This, obviously, is only good server-wide read-only, but that is what I need.
dovecot -n relevant settings:
mail_plugins: acl
plugin:
acl: vfile
No imap_acl as we do not want to advertise ACL support via IMAP.
Without the "acl = vfile" line in 'plugin' section, it does not work.
thanks again
Chris
Patch:
--- dovecot-1.2.13.orig//src/plugins/acl/acl-backend.c 2010-05-24 15:01:15.000000000 +0000
+++ dovecot-1.2.13/src/plugins/acl/acl-backend.c 2010-08-25 15:23:07.000000000 +0000
@@ -12,15 +12,6 @@
static const char *const owner_mailbox_rights[] = {
MAIL_ACL_LOOKUP,
MAIL_ACL_READ,
- MAIL_ACL_WRITE,
- MAIL_ACL_WRITE_SEEN,
- MAIL_ACL_WRITE_DELETED,
- MAIL_ACL_INSERT,
- MAIL_ACL_POST,
- MAIL_ACL_EXPUNGE,
- MAIL_ACL_CREATE,
- MAIL_ACL_DELETE,
- MAIL_ACL_ADMIN,
NULL
};
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