On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Oliver Block wrote:
I've read the short desciption in the imap faq and would like to know one
thing. When you follow the instructions on top of anwer 4.6
[...]
If user A sets the permission like above, how will user B find that folder,
shared by A?
<http://www.washington.edu/imap/documentation/>. Familiarise yourself
with naming.txt and drivers.txt. There are lots of interesting ways to
access files under various pathnames using imapd. Once know how to use
IMAP namespaces to access different parts of the filesystem tree on the
mail server then you use the normal Unix permission mechnisms to allow
access to things that you want to allow (and disallow things that you
don't).
Common methods would be B accessing files under A's home directory:
0001 SELECT ~A/path/to/mailbox
or the sysadmin creating an "imapshared" psuedo-user, along with a
subdirectory of that psuedo-user's home directory which both A and B can
access (using groups and setgid directories, or inheritable ACLs, or a
similar mechanism) and then the clients using the "#shared" namespace:
0002 SELECT #shared/groupdir/mailbox
Regards
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Neil Hoggarth -------------- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics
Head of IT --------------------------------------- University of Oxford, UK
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