[Dovecot] Master user

28 Feb 2012

      Hi,
I'd like to have a master user that can read the other users mailboxes.
I have only one user who read and write the mail (i.e. I use the static
userdb) and I use namespace for public and shared mailboxes.
I can authenticate to the server but I am not able to list the mailboxes:
...
emiliano@dovecot:~$ telnet localhost imap
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.

OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE
IDLE AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready.
1 login user*master password
1 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE
IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND
UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE
QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS ACL
RIGHTS=texk] Logged in
5 LIST "" *
LIST (\Unmarked) "." "INBOX"
LIST (\Noselect \HasNoChildren) "." "shared"
LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "." "public"
5 OK List completed.
BYE Server shutting down.
Connection closed by foreign host.

This is my conf:
...
2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
OS: Linux 2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.x86_64 x86_64 Scientific Linux
release 6.1 (Carbon) ext4
auth_master_user_separator = *
disable_plaintext_auth = no
mail_location =
maildir:/data/MAIL/MAILDIR/%u:INBOX=/data/MAIL/INBOX/%u:INDEX=/data/MAIL/METADATA/%u
mbox_write_locks = fcntl
namespace {
inbox = yes
location =
prefix =
separator = .
type = private
}
namespace {
list = yes
location =
maildir:/data/MAIL/MAILDIR/%%u:INDEX=/data/MAIL/MAILDIR/shared/%u/%%u
prefix = shared.%%u.
separator = .
subscriptions = no
type = shared
}
namespace {
list = yes
location = maildir:/data/MAIL/SHARED
prefix = public.
separator = .
subscriptions = no
type = public
}
passdb {
driver = pam
}
passdb {
args = /etc/dovecot/master-shared
driver = passwd-file
master = yes
}
plugin {
acl = vfile:/etc/dovecot/global-acls:cache_secs=300
acl_anyone = allow
acl_shared_dict = file:/var/lib/dovecot/shared-mailboxes.db
}
protocols = imap
service auth {
unix_listener auth-userdb {
group = mailreader
mode = 0600
user = mailreader
}
}
ssl = no
ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem
ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
userdb {
args = uid=mailreader gid=mailreader home=/ allow_all_users=yes
driver = static
}
protocol lda {
mail_plugins = acl
}
protocol imap {
mail_plugins = acl imap_acl
}
And in /etc/dovecot/master-shared:
...
master:{PLAIN}password
What I did wrong?
Thanks,
Emiliano

[Dovecot] Master user

Emiliano Rago

2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

OS: Linux 2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.x86_64 x86_64 Scientific Linux