Hi, Jan. On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Jan Lausch wrote: >I believe this can be done by using some kind of "user-domains"? >I couldn't find some kind of overview how this User-Domain / >public-folder / read/write-permission in different usergroups works in >general. Does someone know where to learn about this in general?
Binc IMAP doesn't support shared folders, so you should look into other IMAP software for now if this is a required feature for you. Shared folders support is on the TODO list for the next generation of Binc IMAP, and it is currently being worked on, but right now Binc IMAP can't solve this problem for you, sadly. >Is binc the right choice in the first place? (At the moment, I >authentificate against vpop by checkpassword). >Will it be necessary to use LDAP? >How could a solution look like? For a vanilla corporate mail server where you need shared folder support, Cyrus IMAP usually does the trick. You shouldn't need to use LDAP for authentication, but if you have an LDAP repository already that contains user data for the email users, using LDAP for authentication is usually preferred. I'm not quite sure how well Cyrus IMAP works with LDAP; you'd have to do some research there. If I were to set up a mail server like the one you describe, however, I wouldn't go for the shared folder approach. Shared folders are quite useful when there are many (>1000) people who read the same emails, but in most cases, a mailing list does the trick. And it's usually much easier to set up. So I would set up a qmail mail server (the most stable mail server that exists today), install ezmlm for handling all internal mailing lists, subscribe the users that need to read the emails, then install Binc IMAP for IMAP access. Andy :-) -- Andreas Aardal Hanssen | http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg Author of Binc IMAP | "It is better not to do something http://www.bincimap.org/ | than to do it poorly."
