difference between postuser and sharedprefix ?

[Scott Russell]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 03:27:23PM -0400, Ken Murchison wrote:
> > I'm for the first time playing around with shared folders under Cyrus
> > IMAPd 2.1.9. I have several normal user accounts up and running fine
> > with my config.
> > 
> > In the imapd.conf I see there are two options for controlling shared
> > folders. postuser and sharedprefix. I created a mailbox with cyradm (cm
> > testbox) and gave it ACL anonymous p. It gets mail just fine when I
> > sent to share+testbox at myhost.com
> > 
> > This seems to work well if I set "shareprefix: share" or if I leave
> > that out and set "postuser: share". So I'm confused as to what the
> > differences are between the two settings when they both seem to work
> > the same?
> 
> 'postuser' is the one which is used for posting.  'sharedprefix' is only
> used if using 'altnamespace', in which your shared folder names (as
> presented to the client) would be "share.testbox"
> 
> Check out the description of 'altnamespace' in the manpage or docs if my
> explanation is too cryptic.
> 

No, not to cryptic, just not clear? :) I've checked the man page so
let me try to ask my question again.

I have the following in my imapd.conf file:

  configdirectory: /var/imap
  partition-default: /var/spool/imap
  altnamespace: yes
  userprefix: user
  postuser: share

I created "testbox" using cyradm. This shows up on the partition as
/var/spool/imap/testbox/.  

With my imapd.conf set as pasted here, (notice no shareprefix is set)
mail sent to share+testbox at myhost.com does get delivered right.

Now, given all that, I can, without changing the physical mailbox
"testbox" change my imapd.conf to remove the postuser line and add
shareprefix: user. After restarting cyrus imapd posting still works.

So, maybe i'm missing something about how userprefix, shareprefix, and
altnamespace interact?

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