> 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 _______________________________________________ dovecot mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
