[Dovecot] shared folders

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 17:34 +0100, T. Horsnell wrote:
> A number of our users would greatly benefit from truly
> shareable mail folders. I know we can bodge this with
> symlinks, but mailbox corruptions seem to occur when
> simultaneous updates are made, but this may be a client
> issue I guess.
> So I wonder if true shareability is creeping up the agenda.
> By true shareability, I mean such that if two users have
> the same folder open and one of them makes a modification
> to it, the display of that folder on the other user's screen
> immediately reflects that change. I guess this may well
> require a co-operating client...

Most clients suck at co-operating. Dovecot tells them about flag changes
and other changes immediately, but most clients just ignore those.

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