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Levince107
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Archiving a public mailbox on server share ...

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Hi all

We have a public mailbox used by a team of 5 persons.
How handle the archieving of that mailbox?
The purpose is that all the team could have access to all the archieves.

It's possible to put an archieve on a shared folder on a file server but how will thunderbird handle the fact that more than 1 people wants to open the same archieved email ?

Is there a specific way to handle this kind of mailbox ?

Thx
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You could reconfigure each users Local Folders account to use a shared local directory (where mail folders are stored) on the file server. See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Moving_your_m ... hunderbird if you want to do that. The main problem is that you need to deal with file locking issues if you do that. That might be acceptable if its just an archive (read-only access) . The file locking issues are why you normally don't share a profile between multiple users on a file server.

IMAP accounts support the concept of "public" folders. Your admin needs to set ACLs to allow the desired users to access that mailbox and then you configure it in each users IMAP accounts advanced server settings in the public "shared" field. That lets all of them share a remote folder that is not part of their account. That is a more sophisticated alternative that should not have any performance problems, isn't limited to just archived folders, and provides more flexibility.
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