Mapping other Inbox method (symlink vs ACL)

[Kevin Laurie]

Hi Steffan,

How do I specify the entire mailbox?
I only use ACL via telnet. I tried to use *(wildcard) to indicate
entire mailbox but I guess that does not work.
Will keep looking but appreciate if you could advise briefly.
Thanks
Kevin

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 3:05 AM, Kevin Laurie
<superinterstellar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
>>
>>> By permission I mean (read, write, look-up seen). I dont think symlink
>>> will allow these features.
>>
>>
>> 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 ".
>>
>>
>>> 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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