[kde-linux] Sharing Kmail

[Jim Philips]

On Saturday 08 April 2006 11:49, jim phelps wrote:
> List,
>
> I am currently running KDE under RH9.
>
> Is there anyway I can arrange to have two users share the
> same Kmail? That is, I want to have two users share the
> same Kmail 'Mail' directory and files.
>
> The two users belong to the same Group 'users'.
>
> The simple method of having one users 'Mail' directory
> be a link to the other users 'Mail' directory dosnt work
> as only the 'owner' of the mail directories and files has 'read'
> access. (this used to work under RH6).
>
> I cant just set the permissions to 660 as the permissions are
> reset to 600 when new mail is downloaded.
>
> Currently, one user has to login to the others account in order
> to access the mail, but this is kinda of a hassel.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Regards,
> JimP

I used to retrieve mail for all users with Fetchmail. The solution there was 
to create a new user, mailservice, and set permissions on its home directory 
to 660. 

When I saw your name, I knew I had to reply. :-)