kolab + toltec + outlook + shared inboxes

[Bernhard Reiter]

Hi Mark,

On Tuesday 21 August 2007 19:16, Mark Wassermann wrote:
> I already found out, that Toltec connector maps the outlook folders
> under the users INBOX in cyrus imap server  and uses  pop3 to get mail
> from the users INBOX on the cyrus imap server to the mapped INBOX of
> outlook that is stored under INBOX/INBOX in the cyrus imap server.
>
> I do not know if this is a good way to do this, but it seams that it is
> a workaround to some behaviours of outlook anyway.

good guess, outlook can only handle invitations when they run through
the mail receiving code. So for the Kolab connectors it is a lot easier
to use this funcationality of Outlook, otherwise they would need to 
implement their own iTIP handling, which is difficult.

> The only thing is that some of the users share their Inboxes with their
> assistants. And here is the problem – as long as the user is logged in
> and outlook pops the mail from INBOX folder to the INBOX/INBOX folder
> all works fine and all can read new mails, but if the user is working on
> a laptop and have to leave office – new mails will be not available for
> the other users.

There is a build-in solution, for the user that wants to share
incoming emails: activate email delivery in the webinterface (as user).
This install a sive script that will deliver incoming email on the server
in a different folder that can be shared.
Note that invitations will not be delivered because they could not
be handled. So if you need to share incoming invitations you would need
a running Outlook or share a common secret for an account. :/

> So here at last is my question: Is there a  small tool (like fetchmail)
> that I can use to pop mail from one to the other folder or simply to
> automatically move the new mails from one imap folder to another.

Beside sieve you could probably script this easily yourself.

Bernhard

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