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bennet0496/dovecot\_impersonate
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lets you impersonate another user using the dovecot master user feature

1.0.0(1y ago)018GPL-2.0PHPPHP >=8.1

Since Oct 11Pushed 1y agoCompare

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Dovecot Impersonation Mapper
============================

[](#dovecot-impersonation-mapper)

*Fork of [corbosman/dovecot\_impersonate](https://github.com/corbosman/dovecot_impersonate)*

This plugin lets you impersonate another user when using the dovecot master user feature.

Warning

please only use for user support or similar operational issues. I recommend you always get approval. Using this without consent may be illegal in some countries. For more information about this feature read: [https://doc.dovecot.org/main/core/config/auth/master\_users.html](https://doc.dovecot.org/main/core/config/auth/master_users.html)

The default separator character used is '\*', but you can set a different one using the plugin config file.

To prevent abuse you also must specify a set of networks to allow impersonation from using `dovecot_impersonate_allow_networks`. The default is localhost. And you may not allow more than 4026531840 IPv4 Hosts, i.e. one `/4` network and not more than 7.922816251×10²⁸ IPv6 Hosts, i.e. one `/32` Prefix. You can allow more than one network, but the total number of hosts across all networks (without checking overlaps) may not surpass the numbers given.

### How it works:

[](#how-it-works)

When you log in to Roundcube, you have to use your master user information:

Loginuser\*masterPasswordpassword\_of\_masterThe plugin then strips the master info from the form, so all preferences are correctly fetched for the user. (else it would try to find preferences for user\*master). If you use any other plugins that use the authenticate hook, you might want to make this plugin the first plugin.

Additionally, the plugin initially hides the users mailboxes, messages and contacts (cosmetically), because chances are you are not interested in these (and shouldn't be) but you need to fix some settings that are messed up for the user.

Note

This plugin currently doesn't bypass any 2FA that might be required by other plugins

### CONTACT

[](#contact)

- Fork Author: [@bennet0496](https://github.com/bennet0496)
- Original Author: Cor Bosman ()

Report Bugs of this Fork through GitHub ([https://github.com/bennet0496/dovecot\_impersonate/issues](https://github.com/bennet0496/dovecot_impersonate/issues))

### LICENSE

[](#license)

This plugin was originally distributed under the GNU General Public License Version 2 and therefore continues to be distributed as such. Please read through the file LICENSE for more information about this license.

###  Health Score

27

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LowBetter than 49% of packages

Maintenance37

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity7

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity48

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 65% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

579d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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