Topic: IMAP and Samba

[Luismor]

Hi to all
I have 2 questions:

- How can i make an IMAP folder and stablish permissions?. I want to
redirect some mail to an IMAP folder in order to allow some users to review
the mails of that folder, but i want others to not to be able to suscribe to
that folder.

- Do you Know any contrib abut sharing folders with samba?, I want to allow
advanced users to create smb shares.

Thanks in advance.
Luis

[Barry Fitzmaurice]

The ibays are samba shares, at least on SME 5.6.  samba shares the ibayname/files directory.  Create a grop for your users, then create an ibay with that group having the appropriate permissions.  Don't know about IMAP on SME, I have only used it on normal Red Hat.

Barry

[Maggard]

Luismor wrote:
>
> Hi to all
> I have 2 questions:
>
> - How can i make an IMAP folder and stablish permissions?. I
> want to
> redirect some mail to an IMAP folder in order to allow some
> users to review
> the mails of that folder, but i want others to not to be able
> to suscribe to
> that folder.

Bad idea.

IMAP is designed for a single client accessing a mailbox at a time. With more then one client in a mailbox at a time you're open to all sorts of problems. If you want to share email in "public folders" then look at groupware applications designed to support this safely.

For details I suggest you look up some IMAP-specific references, particularly for the IMAP server you're using (SME has several available.) You'll get a lot more/better/in-depth information on IMAP there then from the general list here.

> - Do you Know any contrib abut sharing folders with samba?, I
> want to allow
> advanced users to create smb shares.

I'm not sure what you're asking about.

If it's IMAP folders with Samba then no, two very different things.

If you're just talking about creating mount points then sure, they're called "iBays", they're well covered in the manual.

[Luismor]

Thanks Barry
Thanks Maggard

I thought that ibays were only for Web purposes. I can see that after all ibays are shares. Thanks.
About the IMAP, i only wanted to recibe mails on a public folder in wich you can suscribe but only reading. I will look for some info at IMAP web pages.

Thanks.