[Dovecot] IMAP - multi-simultaneous-user mail store

[Tim Alberts]

Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 3/19/2008, Tim Alberts (talberts at msiscales.com) wrote:
>> The possibilities for sharing emails in groups seem endless to me, 
>> but it depends on if it's a 'use' or 'abuse' of the IMAP protocol, 
>> and if Dovecot in-particular is designed to be able to handle this. 
>
> Dovecot doesn't YET have proper/full folder sharing support, but you 
> can still accomplish it easily enough...
>
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes
>
Thank you for the responses.  The information there is helpful, but not 
quite what I was thinking.  The documentation looks at sharing an mbox 
or Maildir file among multiple accounts.  I was thinking more along the 
lines of a single account that multiple users can log into, perhaps 
simultaneously.

For the sake of learning, I have been testing a single account while 
using thunderbird, outlook, and eudora simultaneously on the same 
account.  It mostly gets notifications when a file is moved/deleted, 
etc.  This seemed like an adequate solution in my mind.

So my question, is sharing an mbox file among multiple accounts, or 
having multiple people log into the same account the preferred/safer way 
to go?