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admin · Site Admin Joined: 21 Jun 2005 Posts: 209

Hello,

I would like to share some IMAP folders between users. I'm currently
using postfix and uw-imap. Is this possible? How should I do this? (Hard
links between IMAP files?)

The basic problem is this: we have a company and we have some employees,
doing help desk service. There are "cases" with different e-mail
threads. When an employee goes on holiday, the others should be able to
continue his work. The best was to do this is - I believe - a shared
IMAP folder. Our employees are using Thunderbird. That wonderful program
can display message threads. It is very nice, but how can these users
share their e-mails? Is it possible to do this with FreeBSD and Thunderbird?

Thank you,

Laszlo

admin · Site Admin Joined: 21 Jun 2005 Posts: 209

I don't know how one would do this with UW-IMAP as I haven't used
it for years.

Courier-imap does provide for shared folders (and restricts
access to its Maildir store(s) unlike UW-IMAP which can go
anywhere the user's permissions permit).

Bill
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admin · Site Admin Joined: 21 Jun 2005 Posts: 209

There's some directions at
http://www.flatmtn.com/computer/Linux-Imap-UW.html (found by googling uw
imap shared folders) but I'm not sure I follow them. It looks like it's
just setting up another IMAP account that happens to be shared....

I use cyrus-imap, and it seems to have fairly straight-forward support
for shared/public folders from what little I've played with them.

HTH