[Dovecot] Access to the root of a shared mailbox

RIOTTEAU Gwénaël griotteau at eskape.fr
Tue May 13 11:07:32 EEST 2008


>> I have an issue with shares mailboxes
>>
>> Example : I have 2 users A and B.
>>   A must have an access to all mail of B
>>   So i create a public namespace
>>
>> namespace public {
>>    separator = /
>>    prefix = Public/
>>    location = maildir:/home/users/B/Maildir
>> }
>>
>> It's OK for the subfolders, but not for the root (B's inbox, the most
>> important !)
>
> It's kind of a kludge to use namespaces like that to share another
> user's mailboxes. But you should be able to work around this by:
>
> cd /home/users/B/Maildir
> ln -s . .INBOX
>
> Then you'll have Public/INBOX.
>
>

Thanks, it's work well.
For me, namespaces is the only solution to share a mailbox to many  
people (without having multiple imap accounts on each mail client)

Is there others solutions ?







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