[Dovecot] Make a whole mailbox read-only

[Alessio Cecchi]

Il 10/07/2012 17:54, Sandro Tosi ha scritto:
> Hello,
> i've found an old thread [1] where it was stated that a whole mailbox
> can be made read-only only setting the according permissions on the
> filesystem side.
>
> [1]
> http://www.mailinglistarchive.com/html/dovecot@dovecot.org/2011-12/msg00300.html
>
>
> i'd like to check if it's still the only option we have with dovecot
> v2.0.18 .
>
> Regards,

Hi,

read-only via filesystem is not a good idea.

We use, on Dovecot 2.1, ACL for create mailbox (Maildir/) as "Archive" 
and read-only acess via IMAP, could be a solutions also for you.

Ciao
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