deliver and p acl

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Thu Jul 24 10:53:14 EDT 2003



Phil Chambers wrote:

> I don't understand why the 'p' acl for 'anyone' is needed when using 'deliver -m'.  
> 
> While logged in as user 'tester' if I use the command
> 
>   deliver -m test-folder tester
> 
> followed by a message, instead of going into user.tester.test-folder the message 
> goes into the inbox.  cyradm's "lam user.tester.test-folder" command shows that user 
> 'tester' has 'p' access rights.  To get what I want I have to add the 'p' acl for 
> 'anyone'.
> 
> The man page for deliver says "If the ACL on any such mailbox does not grant the 
> sender the "p" right..".  In my case I am logged in as "tester", so surely "the 
> sender" does have 'p' rights.
> 
> Should this be regarded as a bug?

Use the -a option to specify the authid.

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