[Dovecot] Shared mboxes

[Stan Hoeppner]

On 3/5/2012 1:30 PM, Steve Campbell wrote:
> I've been looking at some documentation on shared mail accounts. But I'm
> getting mixed thoughts on how this can or should be done.
> 
> I use mbox for all my pop and imap folders since I've converted from a
> uw-imap server. The first thing that makes me wonder about setup is that
> I've been told to not use maildir and mbox on the same machine, although
> I'm not really sure why since it seems this would work OK, but anyway,
> I'm guessing I should stick with mbox for the shared accounts.
> 
> Secondly, I'm sure I'd need a namespace to use which ever format, so
> there's private, public, and shared types. Most of the stuff I'm reading
> seems to suggest "public" as a type instead of "shared". So what's
> shared for anyway?
> 
> I want to use this shared account so that email can be sent to this
> account, and be shared by only a few people, but I'm reading where locks
> and such don't work with mbox, so in my mind, how do you avoid
> corruption and why not just make a normal account and let people hack
> away at the data?
> 
> I've not even got to the questions in my mind about how to set up the
> account, but figured if I could get the above straight, I might be able
> to fuddle my way through it.
> 
> Help would be truly appreciated.

Start here:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes

-- 
Stan