[Dovecot] SharedMailboxes in a distributed environment

Christian Rohmann crohmann at netcologne.de
Tue Sep 22 16:23:59 EEST 2009


Hello folks,

I'd like your thoughts on the following problem:

If one is using v1.2+ IMAP ACLs to allow users to share their mailbox
and uses SQL as dictionary backend, every dovecot server would know
which ACLs to enforce. But as the wiki states here
"http://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes/Shared" dovecot needs access to
the other mailbox. Does that automatically mean that one dovecot machine
needs to have filesystem access to the all mailboxes that are to be shared?

Is there no way to share mailboxes (folders) between different servers?
(apart from using NFS i.e.)


-- 
Christian Rohmann

Content Delivery Server u. Dienste
Network Engineering & Design


NETCOLOGNE Gesellschaft für Telekommunikation mbH
Am Coloneum 9 | 50829 Köln
Tel: 0221 2222-5751 | Fax: 0221 2222-75751
http://www.netcologne.de

 Geschäftsführer:
 Werner Hanf
 Dipl.-Ing. Karl-Heinz Zankel
 HRB 25580, AG Köln


More information about the dovecot mailing list