Hi I am not critical but just want to share some thoughts regarding this way of handling shared mailboxes: > > In general how i do it is just make an info@ account and login as an imap > user > > this allows multiple info@ users especially in thunderbird to be connected > as a seconday account accross any device. > > aka just treat any shared mailboxes as actual mail accounts, way simplier > and easier to manage? >
This is the way we do it right now. It does not seem to be safe or easy to manage. 1) There must be at least one person which is supposed to give the password of the shared mailbox to all new users of this mailbox. And I think the mail administrator is not supposed to be that person in terms of security. 2) What if you have to change the password of this shared mailbox? What are the many users of this mailbox supposed to do if that happens? 3) What happens if a user of this mailbox (who knows the password) leaves the company? 4) The more people know the password of the shared mailbox the higher is the possibility that this password might fall into the wrong hands. > > any user can then move/delete etc an email that they will be looking after > thus updating the info@ at the same time. > > its very common today to have info@ and accounting@ with multiple users > attached to these as different people will be responsible for different > emails > > thunderbird allows drag and drop accross email accounts (only one email at a > time), this allows easy management. I fully agree with that. The main problem I am trying to solve is the password management. To be more precise I do not want to be responsible for managing passwords of these shared mailboxes due to the reasons mentioned above. On Tue Apr 2 07:43:49 2024, Paul Kudla (SCOM.CA Internet Services Inc.) wrote: > > In general how i do it is just make an info@ account and login as an imap > user > > this allows multiple info@ users especially in thunderbird to be connected > as a seconday account accross any device. > > aka just treat any shared mailboxes as actual mail accounts, way simplier > and easier to manage? > > any user can then move/delete etc an email that they will be looking after > thus updating the info@ at the same time. > > its very common today to have info@ and accounting@ with multiple users > attached to these as different people will be responsible for different > emails > > thunderbird allows drag and drop accross email accounts (only one email at a > time), this allows easy management. > > > > > > Thanks - Paul Kudla (Manager SCOM.CA Internet Services Inc.) > > Have A Happy Tuesday !!! > > Scom.ca Internet Services <http://www.scom.ca> > 004-1009 Byron Street South > Whitby, Ontario - Canada > L1N 4S3 > > Toronto 416.642.7266 > Main 1.866.411.7266 > Fax 1.888.892.7266 > Email p...@scom.ca > > On 2024-04-02 7:25 a.m., Maksim Rodin wrote: > > > > Hello > > I wonder if there is a right way to make a shared mailbox? > > I do not mean "shared folder" but a whole mailbox. > > E.g. I have a mailbox i...@company.com and I have a user mailbox > > us...@company.com. > > I would like that a user which can already authenticate as us...@company.com > > can setup another account in his Thunderbird as, say, > > us...@company.com\i...@company.com > > or something like user1*info, enters his own password and can use the > > mailbox > > i...@company.com as his second mailbox. > > It might be something similar to master user feature but I do not want > > the us...@company.com to have access to all the mailboxes on the dovecot > > imap server. > > > _______________________________________________ > dovecot mailing list -- dovecot@dovecot.org > To unsubscribe send an email to dovecot-le...@dovecot.org -- С уважением, Родин Максим _______________________________________________ dovecot mailing list -- dovecot@dovecot.org To unsubscribe send an email to dovecot-le...@dovecot.org
