dovecot - Mar 2012 - Shared mboxes

I've been looking at some documentation on shared mail accounts. But I'm
getting mixed thoughts on how this can or should be done.

I use mbox for all my pop and imap folders since I've converted from a 
uw-imap server. The first thing that makes me wonder about setup is that 
I've been told to not use maildir and mbox on the same machine, although 
I'm not really sure why since it seems this would work OK, but anyway, 
I'm guessing I should stick with mbox for the shared accounts.

Secondly, I'm sure I'd need a namespace to use which ever format, so 
there's private, public, and shared types. Most of the stuff I'm reading
seems to suggest "public" as a type instead of "shared". So
what's
shared for anyway?

I want to use this shared account so that email can be sent to this 
account, and be shared by only a few people, but I'm reading where locks 
and such don't work with mbox, so in my mind, how do you avoid 
corruption and why not just make a normal account and let people hack 
away at the data?

I've not even got to the questions in my mind about how to set up the 
account, but figured if I could get the above straight, I might be able 
to fuddle my way through it.

Help would be truly appreciated.

steve campbell

On 3/5/2012 1:30 PM, Steve Campbell wrote:
> I've been looking at some documentation on shared mail accounts. But
I'm
> getting mixed thoughts on how this can or should be done.
> 
> I use mbox for all my pop and imap folders since I've converted from a
> uw-imap server. The first thing that makes me wonder about setup is that
> I've been told to not use maildir and mbox on the same machine,
although
> I'm not really sure why since it seems this would work OK, but anyway,
> I'm guessing I should stick with mbox for the shared accounts.
> 
> Secondly, I'm sure I'd need a namespace to use which ever format,
so
> there's private, public, and shared types. Most of the stuff I'm
reading
> seems to suggest "public" as a type instead of
"shared". So what's
> shared for anyway?
> 
> I want to use this shared account so that email can be sent to this
> account, and be shared by only a few people, but I'm reading where
locks
> and such don't work with mbox, so in my mind, how do you avoid
> corruption and why not just make a normal account and let people hack
> away at the data?
> 
> I've not even got to the questions in my mind about how to set up the
> account, but figured if I could get the above straight, I might be able
> to fuddle my way through it.
> 
> Help would be truly appreciated.
Start here:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes

-- 
Stan