Dear All, is it possible to edit ACL files regularly with an editor or is there any reason to use doveadm? - Chris
Am 17.02.2016 um 20:09 schrieb Chris:> Dear All, > > is it possible to edit ACL files regularly with an editor or is there any > reason to use doveadm? > > - Chris >webmailers have acl imap guis , such as Horde/imp you can also use Thunderbird https://addons.mozilla.org/de/thunderbird/addon/imap-acl-extension/ doveadm is a multi admin tool for dovecot which covers many complex tasks Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer -- [*] sys4 AG http://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Franziskanerstra?e 15, 81669 M?nchen Sitz der Gesellschaft: M?nchen, Amtsgericht M?nchen: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Marc Schiffbauer Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Florian Kirstein
Robert Schetterer wrote:> Am 17.02.2016 um 20:09 schrieb Chris: >> is it possible to edit ACL files regularly with an editor or is there >> any >> reason to use doveadm? >> > > webmailers have acl imap guis , such as Horde/imp > doveadm is a multi admin tool for dovecot which covers many complex tasksSorry, my question was unclear. I'd like to use a script to set ACLs. Is it better to call doveadm or can I write / modify the acl-files directly? - Chris
On 02/17/2016 08:09 PM, Chris wrote:> is it possible to edit ACL files regularly with an editor or is there any > reason to use doveadm?It may be possible, but I'd not recommend it from a general point of view (without knowing the internals of Dovecot). It is like using the internal objects in a library - not the API - when programming: While it may work with a certain version of the software, it may stop working in the next version. It could also be, that the software uses (or in a future version starts using) caching mechanisms, that render your changes invalid. The API you can safely use is the command line program doveadm. If you use one of its internal data structures (ACL files), then your software may not be sustainable in the long term. Greetings Daniel -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 819 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20160219/47ec0dd3/attachment.sig>