[Dovecot] Questions about dovecot-shared in 1.2 and inherit group membership from parent mailbox

[Lukas Haase]

Am 10.02.2011 13:49, schrieb Lukas Haase:
>>> [...]
>>> Third (and main) question: In /var/mail/shared I want to have a mailbox
>>> for each group. Each user is member of his respective groups (in terms
>>> of UNIX permissions *and* ACLs).
>>> The mailboxes are owned by their respective groups and if a user creates
>>> a subfolder inside it should surely have the same group assigned as the
>>> parent mailbox (not the namespace!).
>>
>> Well, now you're going into something that's a new feature :) But you
>> can probably do:
>>
>> /var/mail/shared = root:root, 02770
>> /var/mail/shared/group1 = root:group1, 02770

As already mentioned, thank you very much, this works!

However, I wonder if I am the one who needs different group-based 
mailboxes in a shared namespace ... I think it can't be that complicated?!

Maybe the common way to go instead is to create a "virtual mail" mail 
group where all users belong to (and assign with 
mail_access_groups=sharedmail) and do all group-permissions solely with 
the ACL plugin?

Best regards,
Luke