Create a shared folder
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Concept: Shared folders
A domain maintainer has the permission to create shared e-mail folders.
The only required information is the name of the folder. This name will however be prepended with the additional prefix "shared." within your mail client. If you create a folder called "general@<domainname>" you should find it as "shared.general" in the folder list of your e-mail program.
For safety reasons it makes sense to provide a quota for shared folders. Folders that are going to be used for sharing of images or larger documents should get a higher quota than folders that will only be used for shared messages.
Finally you can issue different access rights depending on the user ID. There are a few special identifiers and the following table presents the possible options:
| ID | Explanation |
| anonymous | Anonymous users |
| anyone | Any user of the system (including anonymous) |
| email@<domainname> | The user with this e-mail address |
| All members of the corresponding groups Note: It should be possible to add Distribution lists as groups. But the corresponding kolab code does not look like it would support this at the moment. |
The anonymous user has a special function. If you provide this user - or anyone for that matter since it includes anonymous - with post access rights to a folder (see below) anyone from the outside may send emails directly to this folder by using the special syntax kolab+shared.foldername. As an example you would be able to place messages in the shared folder "general" by addressing your message to "kolab+shared.general@<domainname>".
The access right can be set to the following values:
| Access right | Explanation |
| none | User has no access rights to the folder |
| post | User may send messages to the folder |
| read | User may read the e-mails present in this folder |
| read/post | User may send messages to the folder and read folder items |
| append | User may place e-mails into the folder |
| write | Users may modify e-mail flags (eg 'read/unread') |
| read anon | Unclear |
| read anon/post | Unclear |
| read hidden | Unclear |
| read hidden/post | Unclear |
| all | All rights |
