Re: su question

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Derek Broughton <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Linda wrote:

I have several timeshare employees that I would like to have share the
same email account but not the same login. I thought I had a solution
figured out by moving the thunderbird-profile to a directory they could
all access. However thunderbird ignores umask and on closing sets the
inbox as user rw no group permissions.

I'd say you're going the wrong way. Set up an IMAP server (dovecot's
simple). Create a user with no login (essentially, the shell is set
as /bin/false), and deliver its email to the IMAP server
(usually /var/mail/$USER/ or /home/$USER/Maildir/). Have the users set up
any email client at all to point to the server's IMAP port,logging in with
the shared username/password.
--
derek

That's the correct way to do it. It's the most stable way, also.

G.

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