dovecot - May 2010 - A few questions on shared folders

I'm looking at the possibility of using shared folders to solve a particular
problem for
my employer and I have a few questions:

    1) Can shared folders be in mbox format while allowing the user's mail
to be
         in maildir format? (I think the answer is yes, but wanted to check).

    2) What version of dovecot should I be running in order to support shared
folders?

    3) Is there a good overview document that people could recommend I read that
         describes how best to set up shared folders under dovecot (and perhaps
also
         gives an overview of shared folder usage in IMAP mail clients in
general)?

   Thanks very much,

    Michael Durket

On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 06:39 -0700, Michael Durket wrote:
> I'm looking at the possibility of using shared folders to solve a
particular problem for
> my employer and I have a few questions:
> 
>     1) Can shared folders be in mbox format while allowing the user's
mail to be
>          in maildir format? (I think the answer is yes, but wanted to
check).
Yes, although it might be a bit more difficult with mboxes (I don't
remember why - maybe it isn't).
>     2) What version of dovecot should I be running in order to support
shared folders?
Any Dovecot version will work, but you probably have less problems with
newer versions.
>     3) Is there a good overview document that people could recommend I read
that
>          describes how best to set up shared folders under dovecot (and
perhaps also
>          gives an overview of shared folder usage in IMAP mail clients in
general)?
http://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes should help (although I guess it
should be cleaned up somewhat someday).