Hi Mary, thank you for your detailed answer.
I gave you correct answers in my first reply but you have either ignored or misunderstood or denied what I said. I suggest you read my answer again very carefully.
I lid does when I'm not on your last posting in more detail. My problem is that my English is so bad that I could not perform adequate discussion to explain well to my concerns. But I understand your text very well. I have almost four hours deals extensively with this subject. I also believe that to understand the topic EMail very well.
If sending an email to the office group does not result in the message being forwarded to all the users in that group, then you have either set something up incorrectly or have a faulty system or have a bug.
You need to more specifically tell us what you did to create and test the office group email function.
I assume you are creating the group & users in server manager, correct ?
Yes.
I try to explain the issue to gradually times:
1. I have a email-account office@domain.com at a Provider xyz. All member have a account at the same Provider
2. In my SME-Server i have users with her own account as the provider
3. I have a group named office and a cuple of users are member of this group
4. I use Fetchmail to fetch Mails from the Provider
5. I can't fetch Mails from the user office@domain.com to a group named grp_office@domain.com (mail-address), only at a user.
6. in webmail only every user can connect with his own user-mail-account.
The only way to achieve access to a common account called office, is to create a User named office.
Then configure each individual user account (who wants access to the office email folders) to access the same office user mail folders by configuring the email client to use IMAP. You can do this with Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Mail, Thunderbird & most other email clients etc. I am not sure if this is supported in egroupware (ie the ability to access multiple users email accounts via IMAP protocol), it's been a long time since I used egroupware.
ok, I understand, and that's exactly what I also used forever.
I am also not aware whether this can be achieved in Horde webmail, as I have not tried it, but I think webmail can only access email for the account the user is logged in as.
Horde Webmail is absolutely not my favorite. It serves me just to test the mail access.
So if you insist to use webmail, then different people would have to login via webmail to the office user account. I am not sure if webmail behaves correctly with multiple concurrent logins as the same user (the office User in this case), so check this to your satisfaction.
This would not be necessary, it would not make sense.
As you note, if you use a Group or Pseudonym to forward the office mail to other users, then the Sent (& all other) mail folders will not be common.
This is the wrong terminology. I want to route/forward the mails, I want the user to access the group-account uniformly.
Having individual users directly accessing the office User account via IMAP is the only way to have a common set of email folders (including Sent folder) shared by multiple users.
Ok, this is just what works in any IMAP-enabled mail clients. I would in addition to the user account a group account. This is the default, and this works always.
The question remains to what is in LDAP the entry for a group or a shared folder (eg ibay)? Can an email being sent to the email address of the group? Therefore came my question at can the fetchmail mail from user office@domain.com can collect the email address of the group.
The whole issue has a cause. I use eGroupware at my SME Server. In eGW i have a mailclient (felamimail). For all members of a group I manually add the account-data (IMAP-Informationen) from the group and must have everywhere the same parameters are set. Changed a parameter, it must be adapted it in all accounts. It would be better if set up only one point, namely the group's account and all group members would use the entry. But that is surely not the task of SME Server.
I therefore apologize if I have caused confusion.
Regards and Thanks
Detlev