Why did you flatten the quoted text in this thread? Please reply in text with quoted text preserved. > We recently installed Squirrelmail onto a customer's mail server. > > The setup is this: > > FC9 > php-5.1.6-3.7.fc6 > httpd-2.2.3-5 > dovecot-1.0.3-6.fc6 > SquirrelMail version 1.4.15 > > As well as the normal users account, we also have an account called (for the > sake of brevity) "Plans" (think "Customers"). Below this account is a > separate folder for each Plan. It looks like this: > > Plan-1 > Plan-2 > ...... > ...... > Plan-9999 > > Each of the users has responsibility for a subset of the Plans, but > everybody also needs access to all the Plans folders. > > Consequently, an end users folder structure will look like this: > > Inbox > Trash > My Plans > Plan-27 > Plan-101 > Personal Files > Work Files > More Folder > ........... > More Folders > All Plans > Plan-1 > Plan-2 > Plan-3 > ..... > ..... > Plan-999 > Other Folders > > This has been done so that they can collapse "All Plans" and deal just with > "My Plans" but they can (of needed) get access to all the plans (customers) > emails. > > The "All Plans" is a separate IMAP account that everyone is subscribed to. > > The "My Plans is a just folder that contains symbolic links back to the > actual folders (from All Plans). > > > symlinks to implement shared mail folders? Is this the official > recommendation from dovecot on how to implement this? If dovecot > dumps any of its own data (subscription/other) files into mail > folders, then this kind of symlinking is bound to break IMO. You need > to take this whole design to the dovecot community and make sure it > really will work before you try to figure out if it will work via > webmail. If you insist on solving a server problem using a client, > though, turn up your IMAP logging verbosity or sniff the connection > between webmail and IMAP to see the commands and responses and errors > dovecot is throwing. > > > Dovecot does not recommend using symlinks. I have managed dovecot servers > Since Redhat v8 and have never recommended or have it recommended to me to > ever use symlinks. On the contrary, using symlinks can, and apparently > does, cause undesirable affects. > > Don't use symlinks unless you can verify and quantify the potentialities > as you encounter them. Too many moving parts? Start over and do it 'by the > book' > > My 2 pence. > > Karl > > > > Whilst I do not doubt your good intentions and experience, and have no > desire to get into a tussle over this, according to Tino Sirainen just a few > months ago: > > Some future Dovecot version will hopefully have a better support for > shared mailboxes, but for now symlinks are probably the best you can do. Then it sounds like a hack to begin with which should send up red flags for anyone running a production system. Maybe you should use an IMAP server that has correctly implemented a shared folders solution. If you remain with your current implementation, then my last suggestion is your next step. I don't really think this is a SM issue. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ----- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
