[Dovecot] Easy way to make all mailboxes of a user read-only

[Stephan von Krawczynski]

On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:00:22 +0300
Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> On 11.4.2013, at 15.07, Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw at ithnet.com> wrote:
> 
> > I try to configure dovecot to make all imap accesses read-only for a certain
> > user. I thought this would be possible by creating a global acl file (here
> > "global-acl") like:
> 
> Sorry, there is still no "default ACLs" feature in Dovecot. The only semi-easy way to do what you want is using filesystem permissions.
> 
> This is something that really should be developed though.. But probably not until v2.3.

And I just checked another thing:
Though setting permissions to 400 the owner still can move mails to trash
(seems to be a rename?). That is definitely not read-only.


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Regards,
Stephan