su question

[Gérard BIGOT]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> 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.