On Thu, Oct 23, 2014, at 05:39 AM, Clement Hermann (nodens) wrote: > On 22/10/2014 23:02, Bron Gondwana wrote: > So if I understand this correctly, it means we could still have "global" > shared folders but not shared folders limited in a domain namespace like > we have now ? Correct. > if so, it seems both good and bad to me. > > The good : if you have several domains in a single organisation, you can > have shared folder for all. And likewise users can share across those domains, which is my real goal here (apart from neatness and RFC correctness of the view that the admin sees) > The bad : in a multi-tenant environment, we can't provide shared folder > to our customers without adding something to the name to ensure it is > unique accross all customers, or use the standard mailbox sharing (so > the end user sees "Other users/mypublicmailbox@mydomain" in its client). > No more "Shared Folders/contact" or "Shared Folders/public". So you could do Shared Folders/mydomain.com/contact as well, but I do see your point. > Shared folders in a multi-tenant environment is not so widespread I > think, it's more a global organisation thing, but still, it could be an > issue for some. > > I'm not sure how well it would be handled in groupware suites like Horde > for instance. Presumably with the right groups, it would work OK - unless the shared folder names are hard coded. Another alternative is just to run a fully separate instance of Cyrus for every domain. Bron. -- Bron Gondwana brong@xxxxxxxxxxx ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus
