[Dovecot] Multiple Logins - Single Mail Account

[Andrew Hucthings]

On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 07:49 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> * Net Cerebrum <netcerebrum at gmail.com> [20050504 06:43]: wrote:
> > I have a mail account which needs to be accessed by 4-5 people
> > simultaneously through IMAP. As of now I have configured it on the
> > respective clients using the same username and password so we have
> > multiple people accessing the same account through their mail clients
> > simultaneously and it is working flawlessly. Is this alright or can it
> > lead to some problems or corruption of data later ? What is the best
> > way to allow multiple people to access a single mailbox for read as
> > well as write operations ?
> 
> I am a newbie to dovecot, but from the top of my head, I must have read
> somewhere that the dovecot 1.0-test version is the one that will
> implement shared Maildir. The feature is not in 0.9.xx.
> So ostensibly what you want is shared Maildir, but the way you have
> setup should work. Just tell them to make a decision between themselves
> who is allowed to do any deletions and there should be no problem.
> 
> I stress that I am a newbie, so I may not be right. Please see if you
> can get some info about "shared Maildir" from the docs.
> ioactive cat has eighteen half-lives."
>
The nature of Maildir (and part of the purpose of its creation) is
multiple simultaneous logins.  With that in mind it _should_ in theory
work fine with the .9 releases but I haven't really played with those
much. It definitely works with the 1.0 releases as we do it here.  It
requires no special setup. 

Regards
Andrew
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