Tim Mooney wrote:
[my apologies if you see this twice, I sent a copy earlier from an
a different address that's not subscribed]
All-
I've been tasked with coming up with some kind of method to accomplish
the
equivalent of a delegate/designate/proxy capability for two people that
get their email via IMAP. We have a Vice President that wants her
administrative assistant to be able to manage the VP's email (read it,
delete messages, etc). The catch is that this needs to happen without
the VP giving out her password.
The solution we have for this "email folder sharing" is to implement it
via WebMail. WebMail can take care of the access controls and
permission levels and can know the passwords to access the individual
folders and such. If done well, it can behave exactly as you describe
for folders explicitly shared with the secretary. The benefit is that
you do not need to do anything with symlinks and permissions (which I
think could work but could result in some problems for non-single file
folder formats -- i.e. with mixed ownership of files an d ensuring
consistent permissions for all files and subfolders).
Our WebMail solution at http://luxsci.com has this exact kind of email
sharing functionality on top of a UW IMAP back end. If you have
questions on how you could implement it yourself.
Best,
-Erik Kangas
LuxSci.com
I'm planning on experimenting with UNIX groups and/or ACLs to give the
administrative assistant the necessary OS permissions to access the VP's
folders, along with either symlinks or hard links from the admin
assistant's home directory to the folders in the VP's home directory.
Is there a better way to accomplish what I'm trying to do? Are there
any pitfalls to the approach I'm considering?
We're currently running imap-2004g with all MBX (not just INBOX, all
folders are MBX). We've been experimenting with the imap-2006 builds,
and so far 2006k DEV looks like a winner. We will eventually be
migrating
to MIX. If we need to go to 2006k and MIX to make this work, we would
certainly do that, as we're headed in that direction anyway.
Any advice appreciated,
Tim
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