On 3/5/2012 1:30 PM, Steve Campbell wrote: > I've been looking at some documentation on shared mail accounts. But I'm > getting mixed thoughts on how this can or should be done. > > I use mbox for all my pop and imap folders since I've converted from a > uw-imap server. The first thing that makes me wonder about setup is that > I've been told to not use maildir and mbox on the same machine, although > I'm not really sure why since it seems this would work OK, but anyway, > I'm guessing I should stick with mbox for the shared accounts. > > Secondly, I'm sure I'd need a namespace to use which ever format, so > there's private, public, and shared types. Most of the stuff I'm reading > seems to suggest "public" as a type instead of "shared". So what's > shared for anyway? > > I want to use this shared account so that email can be sent to this > account, and be shared by only a few people, but I'm reading where locks > and such don't work with mbox, so in my mind, how do you avoid > corruption and why not just make a normal account and let people hack > away at the data? > > I've not even got to the questions in my mind about how to set up the > account, but figured if I could get the above straight, I might be able > to fuddle my way through it. > > Help would be truly appreciated.
Start here: http://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes -- Stan
