Cyrus admin access to user mailboxes

Julian Pilfold-Bagwell jools at oss4all.plus.com
Fri Sep 14 09:52:00 EDT 2007


Simon Matter wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Just a quick question regarding accessing mailboxes via admin accounts. I
>> have Cyrus configured with 4 admins named in the imapd.conf file but I
>> can't find how to access users accounts which we have to do under certain
>> circumstances. On exchange you'd log in with domain/user/mailboxowner to
>> gain access. What's the best method of doing with Cyrus?
>>     
>
> You could use proxy authentication and then authorize as the normal user.
> Check the option proxyservers in imapd.conf.
>
> Regards,
> Simon
>
>   
That's brilliant folks, thanks for the help. I'm going to have try and 
fix egroupware  now as it's stopped responding :(

Thanks for the help, much appreciated,

Cheers,

Jools


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