[Dovecot] Shared folder (namespace) access hanging

[Rainer Frey]

On Tuesday 16 May 2006 08:07, Jeff Turner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using Dovecot 1.0-b8. We use a shared 'support' account for
> incoming support mail. For security reasons we want to instead have
> everyone with their own account, accessing a shared 'support' folder.
> So I've configured dovecot with a public 'Support' namespace:
>
> default_mail_env = maildir:/imap/mailboxes/%u
>
> namespace private {
>    separator = /
>    prefix =
>    inbox = yes
> }
> namespace public {
>     separator = /
>     location =
>    
> maildir:/imap/mailboxes/support:CONTROL=/imap/mailboxes/%u/shared-set
>tings/support/control prefix = Support/
>     hidden = no
> }

[...]

> So I'm confused. Am I doing something stupid? Why is there a common
> .cache file (it doesn't get created in the CONTROL dir), but not a
> common dovecot-uidlists? Is anyone actually *using* shared folders?
> :)

I do. I had similar problem in the beginning, but now I also specify 
separate indexes with :INDEX=/path/with/user/component in addition to 
CONTROL=/path. This works.

> Thanks,
>
> Jeff

Rainer
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