[Dovecot] Shared mailboxes and accessing MailDir not through IMAP

[Bram Mertens]

On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 01:28 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
[...]
> It requires 1.0-stable releases. With 0.99.x only way to have "shared
> mailboxes" is to have a shared userid under which people log in to read
> the mail.
[...]

I'm still new to dovecot and IMAP/Maildir in general so this may be
obvious but I have to ask anyway.

>From the above I gather that it is safe for multiple users to log in
using the same userid and reading/sending/... mail concurrently?

I'm using 0.99.14 on debian testing with maildir folders and I would
like to allow my girlfriend to read my mail as well as hers and vice
versa. My mail would be stored in /home/my_userid/Maildir and hers
in /home/her_userid/Maildir on the same machine.

TIA

Bram
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