Sharing mailbox between 'login accounts' - i.e. for remote devices...

[Rudy Gevaert]

Quoting Karl Pielorz <kpielorz_lst at tdx.co.uk>, Tue, 18 Jun 2013:

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> Thanks for your reply / clarification... Sadly, I don't think I've  
> ever seen that option on any of the software we use (but I am going  
> to go have another look!).

As far as I know only the mulberry client supports it.  And almost  
nobody uses it.  Before some years it was even proprietary software.   
See http://www.mulberrymail.com/

In my case I have hacked saslauthd to support shared mailboxes.

This is how we implement 'shared mailboxes': a shared mailbox has one  
login (e.g. mybox) but a number of users can log in with his own  
personal password.  In ldap we associate a list  of logins with the  
shared mailbox.  When the user logs in, saslauthd goes over that list  
and tries to verify the password for every login.

(I'm not sure if I explained it clearly enough.)



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