Snaky Love <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, dear dovecot-users, > > is it possible to make dovecot ignore the DELETE command for some accounts? > > Basically what I want to achieve is: users shall not be able to delete their > emails - but they still should be able write emails. > > This is meant for a setup where different users are sending and receiving > emails for a "support" account. > > I looked into IMAP virtual folders and ACL but I did not see a way of > totally disabling the possibility to delete emails and share the whole > account. > > I realize there may be race conditions with a setup like this and a web > based ticket system might be a better solution, but it is only a very small > team and we can always talk to each others to resolve conflicts - so using > only one mail account for support seems practical and could keep the > overhead small - but we do not want to delete anything from it > (accidentaly). > > Of course, at one point in future somebody has to delete some mails from > this accounts to get rid of old stuff - so I would like to implement a > super-user that is able to do that kind of mailbox maintanance. > > How would I use ACL to setup such a scenario? Is it even possible? > Or did I misunderstand IMAP shared folders completely??? > > Thank you very much for your attention! > > Have a nice day, > Snaky
Have you considered using lazy expunge plugin? It will make "delete" move messages to another folder. -- [pl>en: Andrew] Andrzej Adam Filip : [email protected] Reality is just a convenient measure of complexity. -- Alvy Ray Smith
