On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 13:16 -0800, adsarebad@gmail.com wrote:

adsarebad@gmail.com wrote:

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Hello all,

I am using dovecot with maildir storage. I want to share a inbox of one user with another user. I read the page http://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes but it does not deal with inboxes. I tried a test of a non-inbox folder and it worked great.
The inbox does not have a .inbox folder instead its kindof spread through the root of the mailbox. Should I create a folder say .shared-inbox with a symbolic link to cur new tmp in other-guys-mail-folder? What about index files, uid list, and keywords?

Thanks I just did some more testing and it seems linking to the root of a users mailfolder gets his inbox. Now my problem is I want to share a folder that has a lot of other folder under it. I want all folders under this main folder to be shared. I also want either user to be able to rename move delete or make new subfolders. How can I do this?

You can't do this with symlinks. I think the only possibility currently is that you'd have to create a separate namespace for these two users containing all their shared mailboxes.

As for how to define user-specific namespaces, that depends on what userdb you use.. Also one possibility would be to use post-login scripting. http://wiki.dovecot.org/PostLoginScripting may be helpful and creating new NAMESPACE_* environments.

Hopefully Dovecot v1.2 will have proper shared mailbox support and there's no need for all this kludging.