> On 23/02/2025 13:05 EET sveyret--- via dovecot <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>  
> Hi,
> I’m using Dovecot 2.3.21.1. I have mailboxes for the family members and some 
> shared mailboxes, all of them available with IMAP protocol. Users are 
> authenticating using PAM, and shared mailboxes appear as sub-folders of user 
> accounts.
> Because it is easier to use with some clients, I’m looking for a way to use 
> the shared mailboxes as independent accounts. This would mean that, on a 
> client, I would like to create an account to access to `family@mydomain`, but 
> using my own username and password.
> I thought of a way to do this by tricking the password, setting it, for 
> example, to `myname+mysecretpassword`, then split it in dovecot configuration 
> in order to override the username and password. But not only didn’t I found a 
> way to split the string, but also, if I understand correctly, setting another 
> user to PAM module will override the name of the mailbox I want to open.
> What would you suggest me to do in order to get this desired behavior?
> Thank you.

You probably are looking for 'master user' authentication. See 
https://doc.dovecot.org/2.3/configuration_manual/authentication/master_users/

Aki

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