dovecot - Mar 2023 - Read-only / archive mode for IMAP mailboxes?

Hello!

We are currently exploring email archiving solutions. Is there a way to use an
IMAP mailbox in read-only / archive mode? The requirement is that delibveries of
new emails should be possible (via SMTP/LMTP), but no messages should be deleted
via IMAP access.

Frankly I don't think this works, but maybe some of you have tried this
already.

Regards,
Ren?.

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check out the imap acl support: 
https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/acl/

On 2023-03-20 10:12, R???? P??????? wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> We are currently exploring email archiving solutions. Is there a way to use
an
> IMAP mailbox in read-only / archive mode? The requirement is that
delibveries of
> new emails should be possible (via SMTP/LMTP), but no messages should be
deleted
> via IMAP access.
> 
> Frankly I don't think this works, but maybe some of you have tried this
already.
> 
> Regards,
> Ren?.
>