[Dovecot] How to lock a user out?

Geo Carncross geocar-dovecot at internetconnection.net
Wed Jun 29 17:08:23 EEST 2005


1. tell dovecot to look for messages in ~/.dovebox/mbox using
mailbox_env

2. ln -s ~ ~/.dovebox for all users.

3. to lock user, rm -f ~/.dovebox && ln -s ~/.lockdir ~/.dovebox

4. to unlock user, rm -f ~/.dovebox && ln -s ~ ~/.dovebox



On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 16:03 -0600, Kai Wang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We are considering to migrate to Dovecot. We can running uw-imap and 
> have a local path which allow us to lock a user by creating a .lockdir 
> directory in the user home directory and put our warning message to 
> .lockdir/mbox. The locked user can still receive messages in ~/mbox. But 
> can not access any messages except ~/.lockdir/mbox. I wonder if Dovecot 
> has any similar feature which we can use to lock a user out without 
> affecting the mail delivery?
> 
> Kai Wang
> University of Calgary
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