kolab + toltec + outlook + shared inboxes

Hi List

We are using kolab 2.1 server with outlook (via toltec
connector) as
client.  All works fine except some tricky little thing
related to
getting mail in a smooth way.

I already found out, that Toltec connector maps the outlook
folders
under the users INBOX in cyrus imap server  and uses  pop3
to get mail
from the users INBOX on the cyrus imap server to the mapped
INBOX of
outlook that is stored under INBOX/INBOX in the cyrus imap
server.

I do not know if this is a good way to do this, but it seams
that it is
a workaround to some behaviours of outlook anyway.

The only thing is that some of the users share their Inboxes
with their
assistants. And here is the problem – as long as the user
is logged in
and outlook pops the mail from INBOX folder to the
INBOX/INBOX folder
all works fine and all can read new mails, but if the user
is working on
a laptop and have to leave office – new mails will be not
available for
the other users.

So here at last is my question: Is there a  small tool (like
fetchmail)
that I can use to pop mail from one to the other folder or
simply to
automatically move the new mails from one imap folder to
another.

thx mark

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Hi Mark,

On Tuesday 21 August 2007 19:16, Mark Wassermann wrote:
> I already found out, that Toltec connector maps the
outlook folders
> under the users INBOX in cyrus imap server  and uses 
pop3 to get mail
> from the users INBOX on the cyrus imap server to the
mapped INBOX of
> outlook that is stored under INBOX/INBOX in the cyrus
imap server.
>
> I do not know if this is a good way to do this, but it
seams that it is
> a workaround to some behaviours of outlook anyway.

good guess, outlook can only handle invitations when they
run through
the mail receiving code. So for the Kolab connectors it is a
lot easier
to use this funcationality of Outlook, otherwise they would
need to 
implement their own iTIP handling, which is difficult.

> The only thing is that some of the users share their
Inboxes with their
> assistants. And here is the problem – as long as the
user is logged in
> and outlook pops the mail from INBOX folder to the
INBOX/INBOX folder
> all works fine and all can read new mails, but if the
user is working on
> a laptop and have to leave office – new mails will be
not available for
> the other users.

There is a build-in solution, for the user that wants to
share
incoming emails: activate email delivery in the webinterface
(as user).
This install a sive script that will deliver incoming email
on the server
in a different folder that can be shared.
Note that invitations will not be delivered because they
could not
be handled. So if you need to share incoming invitations you
would need
a running Outlook or share a common secret for an account.
:/

> So here at last is my question: Is there a  small tool
(like fetchmail)
> that I can use to pop mail from one to the other folder
or simply to
> automatically move the new mails from one imap folder
to another.

Beside sieve you could probably script this easily
yourself.

Bernhard

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