Group usage on mailboxes...

[Rob Siemborski]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Jason Williams wrote:

> I have setup a Cyrus-Imap server for our company and we are going to be
> setting up bulletin boards for our individual departments. I've been able
> to get everything to gel together correctly; ACL's, mailboxes, etc. It
> works like a charm.
>
> However, as I am looking to set ACL's on these bulletin boards so I can
> have a fine tuned control on who can see the mailbox, post, delete etc. I
> was wondering if there was a way to use groups for this? This would negate
> me from having to add each user to the mailbox by hand which could become
> quite tedious and a pain.
>
> Since the company is growing as well, it really would be advantageous for
> me to use groups for my setup.
>
> I vaguely remember seeing someone post something similar to this, but I
> wasn't able to find it in the archives.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how to implement this?

If you're using the auth_unix authorization module, you should be able to
use unix groups quite easily.  (using group:groupname) syntax.  Otherwise,
you'll need to use AFS PTS groups or LDAP groups (via ptloader) or write
your own ptloader module.

-Rob

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