From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 10 20:06:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 059E016A4DA for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 20:06:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) Received: from relay1.av-mx.com (relay1.av-mx.com [137.118.16.126]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9269B43D49 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 20:06:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) X-Virus-Scan-Time: 0 Received: from [137.118.16.55] (HELO mx3.av-mx.com) by relay1.av-mx.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with SMTP id 316119260 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:06:28 -0400 Received: (qmail 2106 invoked from network); 10 Jul 2006 20:06:28 -0000 Received: from dsl20226.ywave.com (HELO ?192.168.1.65?) (micahjon@ywave.com@216.227.107.226) by mx3.av-mx.com with SMTP; 10 Jul 2006 20:06:28 -0000 X-CLIENT-IP: 216.227.107.226 X-CLIENT-HOST: dsl20226.ywave.com Message-ID: <44B2B342.6090409@ywave.com> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:06:26 -0700 From: Micah User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060611) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Nagy_L=E1szl=F3_Zsolt?= References: <44B29356.1050602@freemail.hu> In-Reply-To: <44B29356.1050602@freemail.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shared IMAP folder X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 20:06:30 -0000 Nagy László Zsolt wrote: > > 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 > 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, Micah