[Nottingham] Complicated maybe impossible e-mail

[Peter Stokes]

Hi

I have a sort of similar issue here at work, though admittedly only with 2 users. I have used IMAP for some time and had issues with both accessing a mailbox at the same time.... but having seen the recent email about Scaleway, I decided to setup a new server using SUSE and Dovecot and implementing the Public mailboxes it supports, if you setup the Inbox as part of the Public namespace it appears to work just fine for multiple users logged in at the same time. You obviously have to have each user setup IMAP account on their email app, but that is normally trivial.

Peter
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Peter Stokes
Ashlyn Computer Services
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On 2 Oct 2015, at 15:44, stripes theotoky <stripes.theotoky at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Dear Group,
> 
> I am currently in Greece doing some volunteer work and have been asked to sort out e-mail by one of the villages. They saw I run Linux onthe laptop and assume I am a great computer guru because of it. How wrong they are. 
> 
> However the problem is this:
> 
> They have an e-mail address info at somegreekvillage.eu
> This address is important and cannot be changed.
> 
> E-mail sent to that address must be forwarded to 10 of the village members on their personal e-mail addresses.
> 
> The e-mail will be answered and the answers will be sent from the info address.
> 
> Somehow apparently by magic the reply will get from the personal email to the info mailserver and be sent on from there and every one of the 10 will know what has been written and will be able to pick up the thread of conversation if anyone bothers to write to them a second time.
> 
> Problems:-
> 
> 1). I don't see how to do it.
> 2). Everyone of the locals accesses their e-mail differently using addresses at gmail, yandex.com, yahoo.com and otenet.gr accessing it via, webmail, IMAP and POP3.
> 3). Seems to be no version control in here so nothing stopping 2 or more people answering the same e-mail at the same time.
> 
> It seems to me that what they need is simple webmail which doesn't allow concurrent logins to which all 10 of them have the username and password. The trouble seems to be that this would be simple and work but would leave open the possiblity that someone could log in and never log out keeping the other 9 in the dark as to what was going on.
> 
> Is it even possible to do it they way they want it done?
> 
> Stripes
> 
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