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Add shared mailbox paragraph (#474)
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* Add shared mailbox paragraph

Explain shared and public folders
Document SharedSeen dovecot prop

* Apply suggestions from code review

Co-authored-by: Davide Principi <davide.principi@nethesis.it>
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Expand Up @@ -270,6 +270,24 @@ use the following credentials:
* user name: ``john*root``
* password: ``secr3t``

Users could share their mailbox (or some parts of it, folders) with selected accounts on the system.
Everyone who is given access to a shared mailbox can read or delete messages according to permissions
granted by the mailbox owner.

An IMAP flag named ``/Seen`` is used to mark if a message has been read or not. In a shared mailbox,
each user has their copy of the messages they have read, but sometimes a team sharing a mailbox
could prefer to know if a mail has already been read by someone else.
To enable sharing of the ``/Seen`` flag for all shared mailboxes use the following commands: ::

config setprop dovecot SharedSeen enabled
signal-event nethserver-mail-server-save

Please note that changing the ``SharedSeen`` status resets the ``/Seen`` flag for all users on all mailboxes.

Public folders are created by the administrator and are usually visible to all users (or large groups).
The ``/Seen`` flag is kept for each user and it cannot be shared.


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