[Dovecot] Sharing all mailboxes and userdb LDAP attrs

Felipe Scarel fbscarel at gmail.com
Fri Aug 19 21:40:45 EEST 2011


You know when you ask that stupid question and then realize you had it all
along? Duh...
And to top it off, I HAVE configured a master user on my Dovecot install and
wasn't using it... man, do I feel stupid now! :)

Thanks a bunch Charles!

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 13:44, Charles Marcus <CMarcus at media-brokers.com>wrote:

> On 2011-08-19 12:14 PM, Felipe Scarel <fbscarel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm setting up a Dovecot environment here, version 1.2.15 on Debian 6.0.2
> > "squeeze". This is actually a complete revamp of the previous setup we
> have
> > in-place here, built from the ground up with updated versions of all
> > involved software.
> >
> > The operators have told me that they use some scripts hacked up by a
> > previous sysadmin to give a single "admin" account full access to all
> user
> > mail. That is, if any user runs into problems, they: 1. Call in; 2. The
> > operator logs in as the admin user; 3. Operator performs maintenance
> duties
> > on user email.
>
> Isn't this what master users are for?
>
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/MasterUsers
>
> --
>
> Best regards,
>
> Charles
>


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