David Gomillion wrote: > OK, now I'm replying to my own post, because I got a minute and went > ahead and tried it. > > I was able to create a symlink called ".alias" in my Maildir of my > account. The command I typed is > > ln -s /usr/mail/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Maildir/ > /usr/mail/my_account/Maildir/.alias > > This was all on one line, with one space between each section. Your > email client may word-wrap, so beware... > > I now have a pretty little folder called alias that has the alias > account's inbox. Note: no other folders were brought across, so this > isn't really a full "big brother" type thing. But it does give you > the ability to share the inbox for processing incoming mails and > whatnot...
You need to be careful of permissions for this, and I don't know what would happen if the folder is attempted to be removed. as long as both users have the same uid/gid for courier this could be a valid use, otherwise moving messages around will get the wrong uid/gid in the real users folder. > > Hope this helps, > David > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David > Gomillion > Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 12:17 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [courier-users] How to share the entire user mailbox to > an admin user? > > I'm not sure what you mean by it not being legal but... > > Two ways of doing this come to my mind. > > 1. Either know all of your user's passwords or create "duplicate" > accounts for your administrator with the same Maildir. (very bad) > Depending on the number of accounts, this could require significant > increases in allowed connections, could swamp the server, etc. Just > realize the potential costs... > > 2. Create symlinks in your administrator's Maildir to each of your > user's mail. I'm not an expert, but I think this might work... just > be sure you name the links well. (better, but still bad) > > Why do you really want to do this? If you need filtering, then > filter. If you need Antivirus, do it with an antivirus program, not a > user going in to each account. > > Finally, be sure you have a good TOS that protects you as much as > possible. Also make sure you make it clear that employees may only > use the email server for business purposes, in a good Acceptable Use > document. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Fabiano Felix > Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 11:23 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [courier-users] How to share the entire user mailbox to an > admin user? > > Hi all, > > I'm wondering that if is possible (using a type of "sharing" command) > to sharing the entire mailbox of all users to an admin user (for > example, to remove some determined messages). I know that it's not > legal, but one of my customers are questioned it for me. Case > possible, how this user can connect to this folders? He must > subscribe to all mailboxes? > > Regards, > > Fabiano Felix > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
