Group Mailbox

[Mike O'Rourke]

> Dmitry Terentyev <Dmitry.Terentyev at i-solutions.spb.ru> 03/23/04
03:35pm >>>
>>>Dear Gurues! Really sorry for bothering you, but I need help.
>>>
>>>Could you please tell me, how can I develop the group mailbox on my

>>>machine?
>>>The way like "sam user.mailbox group:groupname all" doesn't work,
>>>the messages are re-sent to all the users in group groupname,
instead of 
>>>staying still in mailbox.
>>>Do I need in pam.d/cyrus "auth required pam_group.so"?
>>>What else do I need for the box to work?
>>>
>>>Thank you in advance, sincerely yours,
>>>                                                                    
 
>>>                 Dmitry Terentyev.
>Hello Mike,
>
>>Hello Dmitry,
>>
>>What version of Cyrus IMAPD are you using?
>>  
>>
>Cyrus version is 1.5.19-9
>
>>What does you configuration file (/etc/imapd.conf) look like?
>>  
>>
>[...Startaing /etc/imapd.conf...]
># Debian Cyrus imapd.conf
># See imapd.conf(5) for more information
>
># Configuration directory
>configdirectory: /var/lib/cyrus
>
># Which partition to use for default mailboxes
>defaultpartition: default
>partition-default: /home/cyrus/mail
>
># News setup
>partition-news: /var/spool/cyrus/news
>newsspool: /var/spool/news
>
># Uncomment the following and add the space-separated users who
># have admin rights
>admins: cyrus
>
># No anonymous logins
>allowanonymouslogin: no
>
># Minimum time between POP mail fetches in minutes
>popminpoll: 1
>
># umask used by Cyrus programs
>umask: 077
>[...Finishing /etc/imapd.conf...]
>
>>What happens when you save a message to the shared mailbox from an
IMAP
>>client?
>>  
>>
>All goes pretty well (the message is saved with no errors), except one

>moment: instead of logging in by group, i have to create a user, named

>like the mailbox. This is the bother.
>
>>What MTA (sendmail, qmail, etc) are you using?
>>  
>>
>Postfix and its Sendmail compatibility interface
>
>>Does it have an alias for the shared mailbox that would explain the
>>behavior?
>>  
>>
>No 8*) This was checked at first.
>
>>How are you delivering mail to Cyrus?
>>  
>>
>With Postfix, if I'm not mistaken.
>
>>How are you addressing the message (i.e. To: mailbox at myserver.ru)? 
>>
>>  
>>
>Yes, exactly this way.
>
>Thanks.
>Dmitry Terentyev.

I am not sure how 1.5.19 treated group acls on shared mailboxes, and I
can't find any documentation on that version (I deleted it long ago).

Perhaps someone else on the list can recall???

Mike.
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