[Dovecot] Shared mailboxes

[Wouter Amsterdam]

OK, didn't think about that. Not that security for this mailbox is a great
issue as this mailbox is only accessable inside our LAN and passwords for
these shared accounts are maintained by the administrators and not by the
clients/users. Is there also a technical advantage (i.e. file locks,
time-outs) of using namespaces/symlinks compared to my simple solution?

Wouter

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Remy Zandwijk [mailto:remy.zandwijk at falw.vu.nl] 
Verzonden: zaterdag 26 januari 2008 12:32
Aan: Wouter Amsterdam
CC: dovecot at dovecot.org
Onderwerp: Re: [Dovecot] Shared mailboxes

> It is not clear to me why I should use namespaces or symlinks to share a
> single maildir mailbox with multiple users. Why not configure multiple
mail
> clients with the same account information?

Well, since by using the latter, you would introduce some kind of security 
breach. What happens when one of the users leaves the office for an other
job? 
When the password of the 'shared mailbox' is not changed, the user who left 
could still access the shared mailbox. Even when his 'normal' account is
disabled.

-Remy