dovecot - Nov 2005 - Newbie question: shared folders means..?

Hi,

The website says "Shared mailboxes aren't yet supported".  Does
that mean
that one shouldn't have two mail clients (same username) accessing the
same IMAP account simultaneously?  Or that Dovecot doesn't support
distinct users accessing the same 'shared' Maildir box?


Cheers,
Jeff

On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Jeff Turner wrote:
> The website says "Shared mailboxes aren't yet supported". 
Does that mean
> that one shouldn't have two mail clients (same username) accessing the
> same IMAP account simultaneously?  Or that Dovecot doesn't support
> distinct users accessing the same 'shared' Maildir box?
The latter one:

User A logins with account A, user B logins with account B - both cannot 
share mailboxes.

However, with some tweaks of permissions and symlinks you might be able to 
have read-access to shared mailboxes and you can even get some results 
with write-access that way. But it won't nicely from the start.

Bye,

-- 
Steffen Kaiser