[Dovecot] Initial support for shared mailboxes

[Robert Schetterer]

Timo Sirainen schrieb:
> On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 11:11 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 10:05 +0200, Robert Schetterer wrote:
>>> Timo Sirainen schrieb:
>>>> On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 09:42 +0200, Robert Schetterer wrote:
>>>>> Hi Timo, what about imap acl full implemented ( not plugin )
>>>>> is there a chance to have it in v1.2 ?
>>>> It's not in my plans, but Kolab people are probably going to need it, so
>>>> maybe they'll implement it. :)
>>>>
>>>> And what do you mean by "not plugin"? It's most likely going to be a
>>>> plugin in any case.
>>>>
>>> Sorry Timo i missposted you *g,
>>> the problem is the file based acl ( whatever plugin or not ), i dont 
>>> know any
>>> webmail etc which gives the users themselfs a chance
>>> to make their own acls, editing files i.e via ftp is
>>> very outdated, what dovecot needs is edit acls direct via the client
>>> over imap like its in cyrus, so we can use horde or squirrel webmail
>> The problem isn't really about making IMAP commands available for the
>> ACL file creation, that's pretty easy to implement. The problem is that
>> once the ACLs have been given the mailboxes should be visible to other
>> users. That's more difficult to implement.
> 
> Well, I actually started it today since it's needed for replication:
> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/6dd0c6755afe
> 
> Mailboxes can't be listed yet (and I'm not planning on implementing that
> anytime soon), but if you add the wanted mailboxes to subscriptions they
> should be usable by clients. Configuration goes like:
> 
> namespace shared {
>   separator = /
>   # %%u gets expanded to the remote user. Instead of %%u you can
>   # also use %%n and %%d.
>   prefix = shared/%%u/
>   location = Maildir:/home/%%u/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u
> }
> 
> I didn't bother testing it with ACL plugin yet, but I guess it should
> work.
> 
> And as for the IMAP ACL commands then.. Well, they shouldn't be too
> difficult to implement I think. Someone else could try to do it
> though. :)
Hi Timo,
youre great, i will test this soon

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MfG Robert Schetterer

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