@girish said in Accessing email mailbox owned by a group:
Let's say a username has 3 mailboxes - admin@, support@ and username@ . Which mailbox is seen when logged in? You might say username@ but what if username@ is not in that list?
@girish I think we keep misunderstanding each other here. I know how it used to be back in the day and I also know that for ages now Cloudron has been using the full email address as username to log into emails exactly because of the confusion you've just pointed at with the above example. So I'm with you here.
What I'm pointing out is that if using the email prefix as username to login (and NOT the Cloudron username) then we get around the confusion in your example. So if a user is the owner of three mailboxes - admin@, support@ and username@, then to log in each other them the username would simply be "admin", "support" and "username" respectively, and the password is the user password. I'm not taking about showing multiple mailboxes at once or anything like that. With a single domain this works, there is no confusion and yet we don't need to write the full email address every time but only the prefix which is easy. And this is what seems to be happening in Roundcube right now.
Now this gets confusing with multiple domains becasue a single user can be the owner of say admin@domain1.coop and admin@domain2.coop. But for this "I humbly think" the default behaviour I described in my previous message intuitively solves this issue, that is:
if a user enters only the prefix then the @domain defaults to the domain the webmail app is installed on. So say if Snappymail is installed at webmail.domain1.coop and I enter "admin" as a username to login, then it default to the mailbox admin@domain1.coop.
if a user enters the full email address as the username to login then he/she/they can access that mailbox no matter what the domain of webmail app is.
Here is what I wrote in my previous message:
I think it would make most sense and be the least confusing if the username to login is the prefix of the email address, and that it default to the domain of the email app rather than the global email domain. I think that way would be a very neat approach, yet still giving the flexibility to login on any email app installed on the Cloudron using the full email address for niche use cases.
