On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 06:19:33PM -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> >According to README.sharedfolders.html filesystem based shared folders
> >do not satisfy the third requirement. In addition I read on this list
> >that they don't satisfy point (2) as well.
> 
> Correct.
> 
> >That seems to leave virtual shared folders. So here's my main question:
> >Is it possible for Users with login-accounts to access virtual shared
> >folders?
> 
> No, because all virtual shared folders will presumably use a different 
> uid/gid that's reserved for virtual mail accounts, and thus will be 
> unaccessible to the IMAP server that runs under the system account's 
> uid/gid.

In principle you could use the Unix group mechanism - each of the users
could be the member of the same group. However courier-imap doesn't support
this, and would need to be changed in a lot of places: in particular,
messages in the Maildir and all metadata files would have to be created mode
660 not mode 600.

However you can easily create virtual mail accounts for those users, in a
smooth process, without a 'big bang'. For example, enable authuserdb before
authpam, and then create virtual accounts in userdb one at a time as needed.

Regards,

Brian.


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