Shared mailboxes doc

[Andrew Morgan]

On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Julien Vehent wrote:

> On 12/14/2010 02:18 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>> On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 14:14 -0500, Julien Vehent wrote:
>>> Hi list,
>>> I was experimenting with shared mailboxes today. That's something new
>>> I've never used before.
>>> I wrote a wiki page of my setup on debian squeeze (still on cyrus 2.2)
>>> and was wondering if that was the state of the art, or if there were any
>>> better way to do it.
>>> http://wiki.linuxwall.info/doku.php/en:ressources:dossiers:cyrus:shared_mailbox
>>> Also, I didn't find any documentation on the subject on the website. Did
>>> I miss something ?
>>
>> Nope, that's about it.  They are very simple, and simple to use [once
>> you manage to get *users* to understand them - which is the hard part].
>>
>
> Hi there,
>
> I have a problem with the shared mailbox and roundcube webmail.
> While Thunderbird can access the shared mailbox just fine, roundcube
> lists it (LSUB) but can't access it (It looks for
> INBOX.shared.testshared instead of shared.testshared).
>
> From the roundcube mailing list, that could be due to a wrong namespace
> information returned from cyrus.
>
> The namespace returned is the following:
>
> ---
> . namespace
> * NAMESPACE (("INBOX." ".")) (("user." ".")) (("" "."))
> ---
>
> Question is: shouldn't the 3rd argument be of the type "shared." ?
> (Like in example 5.4 of the RFC [1]).

You appear to be logged in as a cyrus admin user.  In that case, the 
NAMESPACEs listed above are correct.  "Other Users" are in the "user." 
hierarchy, and "Shared Folders" are at the root level, in Cyrus' internal 
namespace.

 	Andy