[Dovecot] Newbie question: shared folders means..?

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-bonn-rhein-sieg.de
Thu Nov 10 11:07:44 EET 2005


On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Jeff Turner wrote:

> The website says "Shared mailboxes aren't yet supported".  Does that mean
> that one shouldn't have two mail clients (same username) accessing the
> same IMAP account simultaneously?  Or that Dovecot doesn't support
> distinct users accessing the same 'shared' Maildir box?

The latter one:

User A logins with account A, user B logins with account B - both cannot 
share mailboxes.

However, with some tweaks of permissions and symlinks you might be able to 
have read-access to shared mailboxes and you can even get some results 
with write-access that way. But it won't nicely from the start.

Bye,

-- 
Steffen Kaiser


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