Cyrus in shared-only setup with no user inboxes?

[Ken Murchison]

Scott Balmos wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I remember reading a message like this back in the 1997 archives, but
> maybe (hopefully?) something's changed in the newer versions.
> 
> I'm intending to use Cyrus and shared IMAP folders as a replacement for
> a currently-running private NNTP server for small-scale discussion

FYI.  Cyrus 2.2 (not yet released) includes a NNTP daemon.  So you can
feed via NNTP and read via IMAP or vice versa.

> groups. No problem, as I know how to do the Cyrus ACLs. My question is
> if it possible to run Cyrus without individual user inboxes, such that
> the users exist in the ACL database, but that's it. What functionality

AFAIK, Cyrus doesn't care.

> is lost by not giving users individual mailboxes?

Other than the user not having an INBOX, nothing.  Your IMAP clients
might have an issue however (I've never tried it).

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