Historically we've handled shared mail accounts by having multiple users
know the password to one regular account. Now I'm looking at using
IMAP native support for shared folders (on Linux).
I looked at #shared and shared regular accounts.
If I create imapshared with appropriate file permissions it appears in
the Thunderbird subscription list. But if I want to have several shared
accounts it seems I'd have to play games with mail delivery to get the
mail in separate subfolders with different group memberships.
I see that dmail can deliver to e.g. +#shared/test
- question: if using the MIX format, what happens to the ownership and
permissions of new folder fragments (whatever .mixnnn files are called)
in shared folders ? Do they get set with mode 600 hence become unreadable
by other group members ?
If I create a regular account with appropriate file permissions and group
memberships I can access it easily in Alpine
as {mail.example.com/user=jane}~dick/INBOX
But in Thunderbird I can't see how to easily subscribe.
If I edit ~jane/.mailboxlist to include ~dick/INBOX then
I see the folder in the Thunderbird subscription list, but
as ~jane is not a shell account she can't do this herself.
I also get a complaint from sendmail that ~dick is group-writable, and
sendmail refuses to read ~dick/.forward. Not perhaps a problem since
forwarding a group account is unlikely.
Is anyone using these methods in production ?
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Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada
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