[Dovecot] Permissions for Public Namespace?
Dear List,
We've been following:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedFolders
But all we can do is subscribe. Our users can't create folders, move e-mails into the top level folder etc.
Am I not grasping the shared folders idea correctly?
Thanks.
-- Kind Regards,
Gavin Henry. Managing Director.
T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E ghenry@suretecsystems.com
Open Source. Open Solutions(tm).
On 4/10/06, Gavin Henry <ghenry@suretecsystems.com> wrote:
Dear List,
We've been following:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedFolders
But all we can do is subscribe. Our users can't create folders, move e-mails into the top level folder etc.
Am I not grasping the shared folders idea correctly?
IIRC, firstly the 'top level' folder, just contains all the shared mailboxes, and isn't actually a mailbox in it's self.
Secondly, I'm not sure about creating subfolders, but IIRC, only someone with access to the file system, and write permissions to the 'top level' folder, can create a shared mailbox.
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong.
For me, the concept of shared folders, is going to be emails for certain 'virtual users' will go into a shared folder, that other users can then all read, and respond to if needed. I'm still playing around, because what I need requires some weird stuff, including shared indexes for some folders, and private indexes for others.
For some people, a shared folder is just that. Got an email you want all your co-workers to see, maybe there is a jokes shared folder, that you can all copy your jokes into!
What do YOU want to do with them? I'm sure there is probably a way for it to be made possible, if you can clearly define what you want done!
Tim
Linux Counter user #273956
<quote who="Timothy White">
On 4/10/06, Gavin Henry <ghenry@suretecsystems.com> wrote:
Dear List,
We've been following:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedFolders
But all we can do is subscribe. Our users can't create folders, move e-mails into the top level folder etc.
Am I not grasping the shared folders idea correctly?
Sorry for the huge delay!
IIRC, firstly the 'top level' folder, just contains all the shared mailboxes, and isn't actually a mailbox in it's self.
Secondly, I'm not sure about creating subfolders, but IIRC, only someone with access to the file system, and write permissions to the 'top level' folder, can create a shared mailbox.
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong.
For me, the concept of shared folders, is going to be emails for certain 'virtual users' will go into a shared folder, that other users can then all read, and respond to if needed. I'm still playing around, because what I need requires some weird stuff, including shared indexes for some folders, and private indexes for others.
Understood.
For some people, a shared folder is just that. Got an email you want all your co-workers to see, maybe there is a jokes shared folder, that you can all copy your jokes into!
What do YOU want to do with them? I'm sure there is probably a way for it to be made possible, if you can clearly define what you want done!
Right here goes:
For our client, we have 3 groups (departments). They have a Manager each.
Company Policy is no private e-mail.
Each Dept. Manager needs to see each persons INBOX and Sent maildir folder, in their own Dept.
Also, the Users should not be able to delete e-mails in the Sent folder.
Our plan was to create lots of "dovecot-shared" in the users maildir, and symlink them into the Managers Maildir. Not sure how to make the Sent folder e-mails undeletable by the user though?
chattr -R -i Maildir/.Sent
Ideas?
Cheers.
-- Kind Regards,
Gavin Henry. Managing Director.
T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E ghenry@suretecsystems.com
Open Source. Open Solutions(tm).
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