I had a need for a ‘shared’ email address. Small company, office@ address. No such Unix mailbox, yet it needs multiple user access. Group alias was an option, but very duplicative. When there was debate on who should recieve it and who shouldn…

For maildrop users. To solve the problem where by maildrop delivers mail to shared folders, setting the permissions to 600 and ownership to the “–user ” maildrop is called to deliver for. To get all users to have read and write permission, allowing the move from ./tmp to ./cur to happen…

chmod 2770 .maildir/ .maildir/.[cnt]*

In /etc/maildroprc or ~/.mailfilter add a UMASK= before and after the section that delivers shared mailbox mail.

EG:
UMASK=007
if ( /^.*To: shared/ )
{
to $SHARED/.global
}
UMASK=077

Asides changing the perms on existing mail in ./cur ./new ./tmp there shouldn’t be a problem anymore.

Paul

Another problem I found is that I want to have most users accessing the shard folder in read-only basis, leaving one admin user having read-write access.

The problem is: unless the admin user reads the incoming mails of the shared folder (means moving from the ‘new’ folder to ‘cur’ folder), other users can’t see the mail incoming.

anyways to force courier to put the mail to ‘cur’, even before any user reads it?

thank you for the excellent publication online. Though it has helped me alot, I still have some loose ends to tie with my configuration of LDAP+MailDrop+Postfix+Squirrelmail and I was hoping if you would be kind enough to give some insights into it. This is a project I am doing as my final year project and am a few days from my deadline. I’d really appreciate your help. I want to auto-subscribe newly created “spam” folder without user interaction, currently user has to subscribe from squirrelmail which i want to do once for all virtual users, can you suggest a way or script through which i can achieve this.

thank you very much.

Satpal

I am not that familiar with IMAP to tell you how it can be implemented. However, with Courier IMAP each user has his/her list of subscribed folders listed under a plain text file “Maildir/courierimapsubscribed”. Maybe you can have a script that manipulate that file?

Maybe there is a better way to do things…

i think you are explaining just the same Problem that i have:

I set up a shared folder which should be filled with mail by postfix. When i send a mail to the email adress which is associated with the shared folder, the mail still remains in the new-Folder, although i did the changes you mentioned.

The mails are owned by the user, i set up for the shared folder (and who is in the same group as i). But the mails are saved with the following rights: rw–, so i cannot access them. How can i make it, that Postfix stores mails with the accessrights for the whole user group?!?

Thanks, Hans.