[Dovecot] Shared folders?
I haven't seen any info on this so I thought I'd ask.
Is there support for shared IMAP folders?
Quite a few people at work subscribe to the Linux Kernel Mailing List. I thought it would make more sense if there could be a shared LKML folder that they all could use. This would save disk space.
Is this posssible? If so how?
I am also looking into the idea of doing a local newsgroup of the mailing list but I don't have a news server software setup at the moment.
John
On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 22:05, Villalovos, John L wrote:
I haven't seen any info on this so I thought I'd ask.
Is there support for shared IMAP folders?
Quite a few people at work subscribe to the Linux Kernel Mailing List. I thought it would make more sense if there could be a shared LKML folder that they all could use. This would save disk space.
Is this posssible? If so how?
Not really with 0.99.10. But it's mostly because the file permissions get set wrong (dovecot-uidlist especially). With symlinks and fixed permissions (use the source) you could do it if you really wanted to :)
1.0-tests have a bit better support for them. You can create dovecot-shared named file in maildir root with wanted permissions (0666) and those will be used for the files. It also supports private per-user message flags for readonly mailboxes (or did at some point, I'm not sure if they still work).
Of course, 1.0-tests are still broken.
This probably won't work for what you want to do, but with 0.99.10 Ijust created a second user in /etc/passwd with the same numeric userid (different username). We can both login to the server simultaneously (using seperate passwords) and changes made to the mailbox get from one account to the other fairly quickly. It's perhaps not the neatest way to administer a box, but it works....
- Michael
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 22:05, Villalovos, John L wrote:
I haven't seen any info on this so I thought I'd ask.
Is there support for shared IMAP folders?
Quite a few people at work subscribe to the Linux Kernel Mailing List. I thought it would make more sense if there could be a shared LKML folder that they all could use. This would save disk space.
Is this posssible? If so how?
Not really with 0.99.10. But it's mostly because the file permissions get set wrong (dovecot-uidlist especially). With symlinks and fixed permissions (use the source) you could do it if you really wanted to :)
1.0-tests have a bit better support for them. You can create dovecot-shared named file in maildir root with wanted permissions (0666) and those will be used for the files. It also supports private per-user message flags for readonly mailboxes (or did at some point, I'm not sure if they still work).
Of course, 1.0-tests are still broken.
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Timo Sirainen
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