** Martin Collins sickofthesea@btinternet.com [2004-02-06 23:21]:
My Wife and I both have seperate user accounts as she doesn't like me playing around with things and likes the fact that everytime she logs in it still looks the same!!
Trouble is we only have one e-mail account and kmail is set-up the same for both log-ins. This has the annoying effect of received e-mails being split between the two log-ins.
I was wondering if anyone could suggest a light-weight groupware package that would stop this?
Or, we do have a partition "/shared" where we save common documents and I was wondering if I just copied the contents of the "mail" folders to a mail folder on this shared partition and then sym-linked to this from both home directories? Assuming read/write/group permissions were set up properly, would this work or would it thoroughly break my kmail set-up?
** end quote [Martin Collins]
An alternative to either of those would be to install an IMAP server on the box and then configure your email software to use that. That way you login to the mail system using the same account whoever you are logged on as and the mail is stored on the server - which in the case may be the same box, but that's not a problem. Of course if this machine is directly dialing the Internet by whatever means you'll need to secure it, but you should be doing that anyway if you have any daemons running!
The only groupware stuff I've worked with is PHPGroupware a few years back and Opengroupware which I've yet to get working. Both of these would probably be heavier duty than required, and for mail they'd probably use an IMAP hook into the server anway (or at least be able to).
The only groupware stuff I've worked with is PHPGroupware a few years back and Opengroupware which I've yet to get working. Both of these would probably be heavier duty than required, and for mail they'd probably use an IMAP hook into the server anway (or at least be able to), but iirc PHPGroupware used Squirrelmail and IMAP.