Dear Steffan, Noted. Thanks for your feedback! Best Regards Kevin
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Steffen Kaiser <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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 >> <[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----- >> >> > > - -- Steffen Kaiser > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1 > > iQEVAwUBVUm+1Xz1H7kL/d9rAQKe6QgAnKH2zKVKZzfawIEwhpd4qY1fXP1dXNvA > Ymzsf4i2MSG2hg8d1Nw91kxPQxmamHq98HLgHFjWy9of/5zW8I23iOAjxgJMpypY > pXha/1T1W4rDoF7wnpHSWdkGtyFW4bQu3T1vNfU12bLw/d1ehdgcDjLHdYDncKyh > ZZdFQ2BpPYyiHs3+KnZVqixdFna9+lEMOMJddVI1+8dTfRf3JlfZptEbhOp501ko > w/slmqMzpZsx/+20QzI+pXh+jmQy0FFAJh8z0mWsnxdJqNbf9zSmSmvCy4lwirhL > Mht3x2mudhcGk5l3Z+R86QxJiElEWpzdFv0JJRQp1oRwljAncasCGA== > =cNmt > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
