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Topic: is it possible to allow a domain admin imap access to other mailboxes

I have a client that would like to be able to access via imap other users boxes
via their admin login.   Similar to how exchange allows.  Is this possible?

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Re: is it possible to allow a domain admin imap access to other mailboxes

awoldman wrote:

I have a client that would like to be able to access via imap other users boxes
via their admin login.   Similar to how exchange allows.  Is this possible?

https://docs.iredmail.org/dovecot.master.user.html

If you configure the master dovecot user you can access any accounts with this user

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Re: is it possible to allow a domain admin imap access to other mailboxes

Wouldn't that give them access to the whole server, not just their domain?


ribas wrote:
awoldman wrote:

I have a client that would like to be able to access via imap other users boxes
via their admin login.   Similar to how exchange allows.  Is this possible?

https://docs.iredmail.org/dovecot.master.user.html

If you configure the master dovecot user you can access any accounts with this user

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Re: is it possible to allow a domain admin imap access to other mailboxes

Yes, this configuration enable access to all accounts in the server not only the specific domains.

awoldman wrote:

Wouldn't that give them access to the whole server, not just their domain?


ribas wrote:
awoldman wrote:

I have a client that would like to be able to access via imap other users boxes
via their admin login.   Similar to how exchange allows.  Is this possible?

https://docs.iredmail.org/dovecot.master.user.html

If you configure the master dovecot user you can access any accounts with this user

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Re: is it possible to allow a domain admin imap access to other mailboxes

awoldman wrote:

Wouldn't that give them access to the whole server, not just their domain?

Dovecot 2.3 supports access control:
https://doc.dovecot.org/2.3/configurati … ter_users/

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Re: is it possible to allow a domain admin imap access to other mailboxes

Perfect, this is what I needed...  Thank you
I will work on setting this up this weekend.


ZhangHuangbin wrote:
awoldman wrote:

Wouldn't that give them access to the whole server, not just their domain?

Dovecot 2.3 supports access control:
https://doc.dovecot.org/2.3/configurati … ter_users/