[Dovecot] newbie question about shared folders

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 10:27 -0700, Tom Lieuallen wrote:

> So, my question is whether I need to use the dovecot imap sharing 
> namespace in order to safely share imap folders, or whether I can just 
> use file system permissions as we have been using?  My biggest concern 
> is safe concurrent access to the shared folders, which I'm planning to 
> implent with mbox files for now.

If you want all flags to be shared between users, you can use any method
that just works. It's all safe. If you want per-user \seen flags then
you need to set up per-user index files and currently it works only with
maildir.