[Dovecot] Multiple Logins - Single Mail Account

[Andrew Hucthings]

You can pipe it through procmail and that will deliver as Maildir.
There is a 1.0 stable branch on the dovecot website which does exactly
what it says on the tin.

Regards
Andrew

On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 11:59 +0530, Net Cerebrum wrote:
> I will check that out for sure but the problem is that I am using a
> Sendmail as my MTA and the mailboxes are mbox format. Is there any
> stable 1.x  version of Dovecot?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> On 5/4/05, Odhiambo Washington <wash at wananchi.com> 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.
> > 

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