...as it says clearly on the man page. Which I read and re-read without seeing it. Thanks a lot! --Janne On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 08:27:32AM -0400, Ken Murchison via Info-cyrus wrote: > You should set the 'implicit_owner_rights' option in imap.conf to 'lr'. By > default its set to 'lkxa' which allows a user to create mailboxes ('k'). > > > On 10/05/2016 04:12 AM, Janne Peltonen via Info-cyrus wrote: > >Hi! > > > >So we wanted to make our old Cyrus IMAP server a read-only archive for a > >period. I thought that'd be child's play using Cyrus's great ACL's, ie. change > >the permissions on INBOX and everything below that to 'lr' for the user. But > >for some reason, a user can still create subfolders to the INBOX and other > >folders below the INBOX (while not being able to delete the subfolders). > >Googling on it, I found one exchange on this list, from the year 2010: > > > > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/2010-June/033125.html > > > >The answer claims that the user will have implicit 'l' and 'a' rights on their > >personal mailbox, referring to a link that's become stale since. Now, there are > >two problems with that answer: > > > > 1) It doesn't answer the question: 'l' and 'a' rights don't give the user a > >right to create a subfolder unless they explicitely give themselves that right > >using the implicit 'a' right; and > > > > 2) at least in the current version of Cyrus, it appears that if the user > >doesn't have the explicit 'a' right, they can't give themselves any new rights > >to their INBOX, so the implicit 'a' right doesn't exist - at least, not > >anymore. > > > >Apparently, I'm not the only administrator with this particular problem with a > >reasonably current version of Cyrus. This one is from somebody running 2.4.18, > >three months ago: > > > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37749083/cyrus-permissions-to-disallow-folder-creation-deletion > > > >I'm running 2.4.17. And I've set the permissions on my test user's INBOX to > >'lr' for the user. > > > >Any ideas? > > > > > >Yours, > > > >Janne Peltonen > >Email Admin > >University of Helsinki > >---- > >Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ > >List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ > >To Unsubscribe: > >https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus > > -- > Kenneth Murchison > Principal Systems Software Engineer > Carnegie Mellon University > > ---- > Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ > List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ > To Unsubscribe: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus