Curious, what is the use case that you simply can't create three users, and share the password on on of the email accounts?
They can simply set up their email clients to check both mailboxes, why would this not work, and what is the use case that requires customizing your MTA?
On 2023-04-15 04:22, Stephane MAGNIER wrote:
Hi
I wish to create a share mailbox ( well.. Apparently, this is a public mailbox). Let's say I have 2 users : user1 & user2 and the need to share a mailbox for "general inquiries" emails..
Despite of the 2 users' account creation ( user1 & user2) , should I create a third email account ( info1) for general inquiries for instance and instruct Dovecot that this mail box has to be shared ?
In that case, logically, I have to declare into: "15-Mailboxes.conf"
|namespace { type = public separator = / prefix = Public/ location = maildir:|||/var/spool2/mail|/info1/:CONTROL=/var/spool2/mail/Maildir/info1:INDEX=|||/var/spool2/mail|/info1 # Allow users to subscribe to the public folders. subscriptions = yes } |
|and add a file : /etc/dovecot/dovecot-acl|
|| ||||/var/spool2/mail|/info1/| user=user1,user2 lrwstipekxa ||/var/spool2/mail|/info1|/* user=user1,user2 lrwstipekxa
and add the plugin :
plugin {
acl = vfile
}||
Is that the way to do it ?
- Now what is the difference between a shared and Public mailbox ?
I can see that the plugin is slightly different : |acl_shared_dict| https://doc.dovecot.org/settings/plugin/acl-plugin/#plugin_setting-acl-acl_s...
For me a "public"email folder is for sharing emails.. My understanding is: general email account can be shared ( like info1 in my example).. this is called a public mailbox.( specific email account, shared between users). So what is called a "Shared mailbox" ?????
Thanks for your help ?
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