[Dovecot] Access to the root of a shared mailbox

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 09:15 +0200, RIOTTEAU Gwénaël wrote:
> I have an issue with shares mailboxes
> 
> Example : I have 2 users A and B.
>   A must have an access to all mail of B
>   So i create a public namespace
> 
> namespace public {
>    separator = /
>    prefix = Public/
>    location = maildir:/home/users/B/Maildir
> }
> 
> It's OK for the subfolders, but not for the root (B's inbox, the most  
> important !)

It's kind of a kludge to use namespaces like that to share another
user's mailboxes. But you should be able to work around this by:

cd /home/users/B/Maildir
ln -s . .INBOX

Then you'll have Public/INBOX.

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