[Dovecot] Extremely custom mailbox locations

[Timo Sirainen]

Why? Nothing special. Those users would then just share the same
mailboxes.

On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 17:21 -0500, Justin Krejci wrote:
> What would happen if you specify the same mailbox location for multiple
> users?
> 
> User1 = /mailbox/user1
> User2 = /mailbox/user1
> User3 = /mailbox/user3
> User4 = /mailbox/user4
> etc
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dovecot-bounces+jkrejci=usinternet.com at dovecot.org
> [mailto:dovecot-bounces+jkrejci=usinternet.com at dovecot.org] On Behalf Of
> Timo Sirainen
> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 5:08 PM
> To: Steve Kemp
> Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Extremely custom mailbox locations
> 
> On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 20:07 +0000, Steve Kemp wrote:
> >   I suspect if I fill cur/ with symlinks to each of the individual
> >  messages things will mostly work out OK, but I wonder if that is
> >  the best solution, or if there is a slim chance that I could serve
> >  this hierarchy without the intermediate step?
> 
> The main problem I see with symlinks is that if message is deleted, it's
> only the symlink that gets deleted. Anyway I don't see other choices
> than symlinking or moving the messages.
> 
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