Am Montag, dem 10.07.2023 um 10:10 -0400 schrieb joe a:
I am only just starting to use Dovecot as well as Thunderbird as replacements for a legacy system, so am still at the "beginner" stage with both, so my queries may seem inane to some.
Bearing that in mind, it seems "shared folders" may not be possible in the sense/context I am familiar with, at least the way I have been attempting it.
Found the Thunderbird client has a "sharing" option for folders yet states "This server does not support shared folders"
So, is "folder sharing" something that has actually been done with Dovecot/Thunderbird? If so, suggestions on where I may have gone wrong?
As you can see in this link:
https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/shared_mailboxes/
... symlinking is the "quick and dirty" hack to share mailboxes between users. What Thunderbird expects is what is descibed in the "Mailbox sharing between users" link on that page. This involdes namespaces and acls, and if this is enabled, Thunderbird will deal with it. I would expect Thunderbird to treat a symlinked folder just as a normal folder of the user it is linked to, but never tried that...
I am not a really experienced dovecot user, but managed to get mailbox sharing with namespaces and acls working in an hour or so. At least without mail-crypt enabled (as you may have seen in the actual threads in this list, this is a bit more complex...).
Robert
-- Robert Senger