Hi,
I have a small business with several (IMAP) e-mail accounts & several workstations, all connected to a central server.
I would like to set my Local Directory for each of my e-mail accounts to the one common directory rather than have each workstation copy all the accounts of the entire e-mail server to the User folder (Users need to be able to follow the mails of other users). (I have another copy of all the accounts on a remote server for access when travelling.)
My query is, before I set it up, would this create any issues, where several Users are reading, writing, replying to & sorting mail on a single source?
I imagine as everything goes through IMAP there's only ever one "Master". (I'm sure it's a common situation & I'm sure I'm not the first.)
Thx.
One common Local Directory for several accounts
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Re: One common Local Directory for several accounts
Does each person have their own account with a separate email address?
By common local directory do you mean literally each account using the same local directory or do you just mean you'd like the local directories to be on a file share rather than the local hard disk?
Do users need to be able to follow all of the mail of other users, or only some?
I don't understand what problem you are trying to solve. Please provide more details/background. Having a common local directory can cause several problems and its not clear to me that it would help share messages as Thunderbird only displays the contents of the offline folders stored in the local directory when working offline. When you work online it displays the contents of the remote folders (stored on the IMAP server) instead.
"IMAP supports public folders, which can be used to share selected folders with other IMAP users without having to share an account. Typically you'd have to use a webmail command to manage which users can access that folder (by setting the appropriate ACL). This is optional functionality that many commercial IMAP email providers don't support. " I suggest you see if your IMAP server supports it.
https://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes (Dovecot)
http://www.courier-mta.org/imap/README. ... lders.html (Courier)
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Fo ... gesvradmin (exchange 2013 appears to have dropped support for it)
By common local directory do you mean literally each account using the same local directory or do you just mean you'd like the local directories to be on a file share rather than the local hard disk?
Do users need to be able to follow all of the mail of other users, or only some?
I don't understand what problem you are trying to solve. Please provide more details/background. Having a common local directory can cause several problems and its not clear to me that it would help share messages as Thunderbird only displays the contents of the offline folders stored in the local directory when working offline. When you work online it displays the contents of the remote folders (stored on the IMAP server) instead.
"IMAP supports public folders, which can be used to share selected folders with other IMAP users without having to share an account. Typically you'd have to use a webmail command to manage which users can access that folder (by setting the appropriate ACL). This is optional functionality that many commercial IMAP email providers don't support. " I suggest you see if your IMAP server supports it.
https://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes (Dovecot)
http://www.courier-mta.org/imap/README. ... lders.html (Courier)
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Fo ... gesvradmin (exchange 2013 appears to have dropped support for it)