question about unixhierarchysep and shared folders

[Alar Sing]

Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> Am Montag, 16. Februar 2009 18:01:30 schrieb Alar Sing:
>   
>> Bernhard Reiter wrote:
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>>> On Sonntag, 15. Februar 2009, Alar Sing wrote:
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>>>> I have question why shared folders are "shared."
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>>> Note that I prefer to speak about "account folders".
>>> Our recommendation is to not use them.
>>> Use a group account instead.
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>>>       
>> How group account works? Are them simalar to shared folders, 
>>     
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> In the sense that you can give rights to their folders that other users 
> subsequently can see.
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Can  INBOX folder be Contacts or Calendar folder?
>> where I can set folder type on webadmin? 
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> You cannot, but the resonsible person can do so with their client
> (which is more comfortable anyway). As a machine administrator, you can do 
> this with cyradm or some script to set the ACLs and annotations.
>
>   
There is that problem that server administrator is sometimes one person 
and IMAP user creating and so on is handled by others. Who can not log 
into shell nor they understand imap rights.

>> And why is shared not recommended? 
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> There is very little gain in using this namespace, but a number of possible 
> pitfalls you can fall in. Also the webadmin was never ment to be a full IMAP 
> folder handling application. Clients might deal with them differently than
> the "user" namespace. Technically they work, so you could use them.
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