Mapping other Inbox method (symlink vs ACL)

[Kevin Laurie]

Dear Steffen,
Thanks for your feedback. Appreciate it.
By permission I mean (read, write, look-up seen). I dont think symlink
will allow these features.
ACL  does support such features.
Only problem is that I have to setacl for individual boxes (ie
Inbox,Sent,Junk etc.)



On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Steffen Kaiser
<skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:
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>> I am trying to map a account(bob at mydomain.com) to help at mydomain.com. I
>> would like him to see/access Inbox,Sent,Junk,Trash of
>> help at mydomain.com . What would you reckon would be the best way to do
>> this? ACL or Symlink?
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> to suggest a "best way" we would need to know more about your Dovecot
> installation.
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>> With symlink, I dont think I will be able to set permissions.
>
>
> What permissions you are talking of?
>
>> Is it possible to use ACL to get the entire email account access(the
>> inbox, junk, sent etc.)?
>
>
> With ACLs help can allow bob to access selected mailboxes with selected IMAP
> permissions, if bob may access the mail storage of help on file system
> level. ACLs are more powerful, but require more setup.
>
> I use both ways:
>
> ACLs to share mailboxes in general, which appear in the users branch, and
> symlinks to place SPAM reporting mailboxes right into the namespace of each
> user.
>
> - -- Steffen Kaiser
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