[Dovecot] Questions about dovecot-shared in 1.2 and inherit group membership from parent mailbox

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 14:52 +0100, Lukas Haase wrote:
> However, I wonder if I am the one who needs different group-based 
> mailboxes in a shared namespace ... I think it can't be that complicated?!

I think most people are happy with having a single uid+gid for all
users.

> Maybe the common way to go instead is to create a "virtual mail" mail 
> group where all users belong to (and assign with 
> mail_access_groups=sharedmail) and do all group-permissions solely with 
> the ACL plugin?

That's one possibility too, sure.

But yeah, it would be nice if it was easier to do these things with
multiple groups.. v2.1 now makes this simpler:

http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/238bafcca676
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/e2605d2d6b33