[Dovecot] A few questions on shared folders

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 06:39 -0700, Michael Durket wrote:
> I'm looking at the possibility of using shared folders to solve a particular problem for
> my employer and I have a few questions:
> 
>     1) Can shared folders be in mbox format while allowing the user's mail to be 
>          in maildir format? (I think the answer is yes, but wanted to check).

Yes, although it might be a bit more difficult with mboxes (I don't
remember why - maybe it isn't).

>     2) What version of dovecot should I be running in order to support shared folders?

Any Dovecot version will work, but you probably have less problems with
newer versions.

>     3) Is there a good overview document that people could recommend I read that 
>          describes how best to set up shared folders under dovecot (and perhaps also
>          gives an overview of shared folder usage in IMAP mail clients in general)?

http://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes should help (although I guess it
should be cleaned up somewhat someday).