Mapping other Inbox method (symlink vs ACL)

[Kevin Laurie]

Dear Steffan,
Noted. Thanks for your feedback!
Best Regards
Kevin

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Steffen Kaiser
<skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:
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> On Wed, 6 May 2015, Kevin Laurie wrote:
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>> By permission I mean (read, write, look-up seen). I dont think symlink
>> will allow these features.
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>
> Symlinks grant all IMAP permissions, the filesystem level permits. That is,
> with symlinks you cannot selectivly deny permissions easily.
>
>> ACL  does support such features.
>> Only problem is that I have to setacl for individual boxes (ie
>> Inbox,Sent,Junk etc.)
>
>
> There are front ends for IMAP ACLs and more importantly for your current
> situation:
>
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/ACL
>
> Works great. If you search the list, you will find posts how to grant
> permissions for several or all mailboxes of one account with a tool chain
> using "doveadm mailbox list ".
>
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>> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Steffen Kaiser
>> <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:
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>>> On Tue, 5 May 2015, Kevin Laurie 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?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> to suggest a "best way" we would need to know more about your Dovecot
>>> installation.
>>>
>>>> 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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> - -- Steffen Kaiser
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