OT Shared Imap folders/accounts

[Ken A]

Steve Campbell wrote:
> 
> 
> 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
>>
> 
> Thanks for all the good ideas. I hope it's showing that I really wasn't 
> aware how IMAP worked. And I wonder how I've got it working  now. The 
> confusing part is that I create normal pop3 accounts, and people access 
> them throught their client (and horde/imp) as IMAP and it seems to work. 
> Of course, this might be where the corruption sometimes occurs.
> 

The pop3 rfc doesn't allow simultaneous access, so if you have pop3 
clients, and your pop server isn't locking out other pop3 or imap 
clients, you _will_ have corrupted mail spools.
Ken

> I'm still not sure whether I'm using UW or Courier, so I've got a lot of 
> digging to do.
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> Steve
> 


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