OT Shared Imap folders/accounts

[Gareth]

I second the suggestion of using Cyrus.

The only slight difference you will see is that Cyrus will maintain the
read status for each user individually so you will need to get people to
move emails to subdirectories when they have dealt with them.

On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 14:58, Julian Field wrote:
> A better IMAP server, such as cyrus-imapd, can do this for you with no 
> problems. I use it here and have several shared IMAP mailboxes with no 
> problems at all.
> 
> Even Exchange could do this for you :)
> 
> What are you trying to use at the moment?
> 
> Steve Campbell wrote:
> > Not the place to ask, I'm sure, but maybe someone can point me to the 
> > proper place or page.
> >
> > I've googled a while, and only became more confused, as what I'd like 
> > to do is not techically a shared Imap account. What I've seen so far 
> > is that an email account is set up with different users being able to 
> > access this account. The "shared" part comes from a mailbox permission 
> > of 1777 and/or group rights.
> >
> > The policy here, for as long as I can remember, is to have one IMAP 
> > account and everyone access it with the same username and password. 
> > This causes corruption, as you might guess.
> >
> > Is it truly just file permissions or group access to a mailbox, or 
> > where should I turn to see the other magic that makes this work? I use 
> > a standard Centos 3 install.
> >
> > Thanks, and sorry for the bother of OT.
> >
> > Steve Campbell
> >
> 
> Jules
> 
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