Delivery According to ACLs' "post" Privilege

[Rob Siemborski]

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 ms419 at freezone.co.uk wrote:

> I also understand, however, that it is possible to authenticate to the
> Cyrus LMTPd through TCP/IP using SASL, but that "... Only LMTP admins
> can deliver to LMTPd through TCP/IP sockets." Can someone explain why
> it is not possible for users, once authenticated, to deliver to only
> those mailboxes whose ACLs grant them "post" privileges?

No one ever wanted the feature?  Offhand, I can't think of any reason it
would either break or be hard to add.  If someone had a patch, I'd
certaily be willing to consider it.

Mostly, it never came up because Cyrus is generally viewed as a "black
box" -- letting users run shell-level scripts on the same server really
isn't the way the system was designed.

-Rob

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