Cyrus admin access to user mailboxes

[Andrew Morgan]

On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, jools at oss4all.plus.com 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 can grant specific users access to a mailbox.  For example, I login 
with a plain (non-admin) account named 'morgan'.  If I need to view the 
mailbox of 'fred', I use cyradm (or a perl script) to grant user 'morgan' 
rights to the mailbox 'fred'.

After that, my IMAP client shows a new folder tree "Other Users" with a 
subfolder "fred" which is fred's INBOX.

When I'm done, I remove the access and everything goes back to normal.

You really shouldn't login as a Cyrus Admin with a real IMAP client.

 	Andy