Sorry for the delay in responding; I was on vacation.
What is the exact error message that you are getting?
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Clive McDowell wrote:
> I'm attempting to set up a mechanism on a sparc Solaris 8 platform to
> allow a user e.g. a secretary to have access to another user's mailbox.
> I have approached this by setting both users to be the same group and
> setting the INBOX file (mbx format) to have group rw permissions.
> Mailboxes are in /folders/${username}. I'm working with Outlook XP as a
> client (not through my choice) and by setting the root folder path to
> /folders I can display and subscribe to the other user's INBOX file. On
> a test machine I have complete rw access to the second mailbox but when
> I try the same thing on the machine in service I encounter problems. I
> can subscribe to the INBOX file OK but access is another matter. If I
> can see the contents of the folder at all any attempt to interact with
> it results in an error message e.g. Unable to lock mailbox. I have tried
> the same exercise with Netscape and the same thing happens. The only
> difference between the test and service machines is the level of
> activity. Both have the latest version of imapd installed. Any ideas as
> to why these locking problems should occur on a busy machine?
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