Timo Sirainen schrieb: > On Oct 6, 2008, at 1:09 PM, Robert Schetterer wrote: > >>>> but instead only shared is shown in thunderbird >>> >>> Unless you manually subscribe to the shared mailboxes, they're not >>> visible to clients. Mailbox listing isn't supported currently. >>> >> Hi Timo, >> understand manually subscribe is a "must have" currently >> i will test this >> will you change this up to stable 1.2 ? > > You mean will I add support for listing shared mailboxes? I'm not really > planning on doing that myself. Or there are actually two parts: > > 1) Listing mailboxes under a specific user (e.g. LIST "" > shared/username/*). This is a bit annoying to implement because of > LIST-EXTENDED extension which allows giving multiple wildcards (e.g. > LIST "" (shared/user1/* shared/user2/* shared/user3/*), but it shouldn't > be too difficult. I might implement this. > > 2) Listing users who have mailboxes that are shared to you (e.g. LIST "" > shared/*). This is difficult to do with good performance with Dovecot's > current code. You don't really want Dovecot to look into 1000 users' > maildirs to see if they happen to have some mailboxes that are shared to > you.. >
Hi Timo, i can imagine that it has not very good performance anouncing shared folders in other users mailboxes over imap but i cant think by another use implementing shared users folders in real world scenarios. Normally this is handeled that way that users edit their shared folders flags in subfolders ( maybe with recursive rights) of their mailboxes by their own and get visiable to the the other users ( which have at last read and list rigths ) via imap acl perhaps they must do an new imap lookup to notice the sharing. shared user folder means to me the possibility that users can give acl attributes ( list, read etc ) by their own with i.e horde webmail and will shown up in the imap shared list by other users after imap search, otherwise you always need some admin ( perhaps with shell permissions ) for editing subcriptions and acls which not really works in real world scenarios on bigger mailservers with many virtual domains perhaps performance can be made better using database(file) i think cyrus does it that way somehow, if you wont include shared folders functional in somehow that way like cyrus does , dovecot wont be the first choice if advanced sharing funktions in virtual domains/mailboxes are needed ( for sure, others will be very happy with the current solution anyway ) -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria
