shared folder name or public folder with mail address

[Tobias Kirchhofer]

On 14 Feb 2020, at 15:02, Armin Schindler wrote:

> On 2/14/20 2:23 PM, Tobias Kirchhofer wrote:
>> On 14 Feb 2020, at 14:05, Armin Schindler wrote:
>>
>>> On 2/14/20 11:44 AM, Tobias Kirchhofer wrote:
>>>> On 14 Feb 2020, at 11:06, Armin Schindler wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     Hello!
>>
>> […]
>>
>>>> For our new setup (planned with CentOS 8, waiting for the official 
>>>> repo for the latest dovecot
>>>> version…) we have a prototype on Debian base with the latest 
>>>> version of Dovecot. In opposite to our
>>>> current solution we will implement global acls with user and groups 
>>>> from LDAP. This is very nice.
>>>
>>> Wow, thanks. This seem to be exactly what I need to go on.
>>> Our base system is a Univention UCS, so LDAP users and groups is 
>>> what we already have working :-)
>>>
>>> With your elements I think we really could have the cyrus shared 
>>> folders with dovecot by
>>> using a namespace of
>>>  type=public
>>> but with
>>>  prefix=shared/
>>> (we might use type=shared with prefix=usershared/ later).
>>
>> There is not something like one way do to this. You could also make 
>> your life easier and choose to
>> create a „Share user“ which is only there to share folders. This 
>> will then be Dovecot „Shared
>> folders“ shared by this pseudo user to other users. You then could 
>> use Roundcube or such to maintain
>> acl with this pseudo user. But we did not follow this path then for 
>> reasons i cannot remember
>> anymore :)
>>
>> For each Public folder we have a defined namespace. „Newsletter“, 
>> „Client1“, „Client2“ etc. We have
>> many, around 30 or so. ACL goes on this namespace (namespace/*). I 
>> guess ACL are first match. Each
>> namespace has its own prefix. (eq. prefix = Newsletter/, prefix = 
>> Client1 etc.) User can subscribe
>> namespace by namespace acl assumed.
>
> What is the benefit using own namespace for each public folder?
> If the config is equal for all folders, wouldn't one namespace with 
> subfolders
> be the same?
> One public namespace would look like it is with cyrus in the client: 
> one "shared/"
> folder to open/close.

Yes, this was a misunderstanding - we have a lot of subfolders per 
namespace. The subfolders have ACLs.


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