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 <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, 5 May 2015, Kevin Laurie wrote: > >> I am trying to map a account([email protected]) to [email protected]. I >> would like him to see/access Inbox,Sent,Junk,Trash of >> [email protected] . 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 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1 > > iQEVAwUBVUmxg3z1H7kL/d9rAQLuHwf/SdVE/ZAH4Tf4/H0EacRvNEn08qUOROGq > eKLpd0p/TFpbHQxfM0YLazH9QEJBIP5mpRWa5U0WVzFiLTfR1UgVPcS3xjJnq+Pl > uR9/vQfUpn/B+viGCsTB8ItKCnTF892mCsiUbiFEs7BeF5jdoTOdHCsHorJL/UKa > bmpTD1ORUeKcA7m075jhTVDB6jwgWRELItIx9W2sqHBu+wfWfMp5lv3qSyOXPLtH > onz+aUYhzAepuAhVI36feMUEwZhzHF+3fvzJmKZJSEQ3BwEZOm0eOqeba4gk52KC > rSCwLZ2aDEwAx9L95MmT+B08M6ChNOuILTiYFlv0o/3G3Qt8qhqHhA== > =Q36P > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
