In the event that a user is on holiday or ill we often find ourselves 
wanting to allow
one user to read another's mail. We are using courier-imap with ldap.

The exchange way to deal with this over imap is to provide a login 
string something
like (from memory) 'actual-user/user-to-login-like' and then use 
'actual-user's
password. Is there a way to mimic this (or similar) behaviour with 
courier-imap?

So far I think my options are:

*   Write an auth_custom module - I'd rather not.
*   Play with our ldap directory and make it contain a second set of 
combined usernames in the format above that point to the target maildirs
*   Run a second imap daemon with an ldap config tailored to access 
another user's mail (assuming the config is flexible enough to handle 
this and that it doesn't cause locking issues).
*   Give up on basing it on login string and instead use shared folders 
(in which case, is it legitimate to use a main maildir as a shared 
folder?).

Could anybody advise me on the best option to persue, or, even better 
add a better one?

Thanks in advance,

Ian





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