[Dovecot] namespaces, shared mailboxes

[Nikolay Shopik]

On 02.12.2007 23:21, Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth wrote:
> On 12/02/2007 08:59 PM, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 23:59 +0100, Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I'd like to provide shared mailboxes with maildir that should appear
>>>> like 'Shared/<mailboxname>' to the clients.
>>>>
>>>> Using the namespace configuration below, everything works fine, exept
>>>> one thing: Mail clients (only tested with Thunderbird) won't allow to
>>>> put mails directly in 'Shared/mailboxname' (the folder it is greyed
>>>> out). You currently have to create subfolders and put the mails in those
>>>> subfolders.
>>>>         
>>> ..
>>>       
>>>> namespace shared {
>>>>   separator = /
>>>>   # hidden = yes
>>>>   prefix = Shared/spamrep/
>>>>   location =
>>>> maildir:/var/spool/mail/Shared/spamrep:CONTROL=~/Maildir/control/Shared/spamrep:INDEX=~/Mail\
>>>>
>>>> dir/index/Shared/spamrep
>>>>         
>>> I find it strange that this kind of configuration even appears to
>>> work. :) If you somehow manage to get it working with v1.0, there's a
>>> good chance that it won't work anymore with v1.1.
>>>
>>> So if you want to access "Shared/spamrep" as a mailbox, the prefix must
>>> be Shared/.
>>>
>>> If you wanted users to have different views of what the mailboxes look
>>> like, you could just change the location to be different for different
>>> users. Create symlinks to the visible global mailboxes to those
>>> locations.
>>>       
>> Having multiple namespaces setup that way seems reasonable to me.
>>
>> e.g.
>> /var/spool/mail/Shared/tech/...
>> /var/spool/mail/Shared/financial/...
>>
>> where 'Shared/tech' would be visible to many, but 'Shared/financial'
>> would be visible only to execs/accountants. And both would show up under
>> a common 'Shared/' prefix to keep them distinct from user folders.
>>     
>
> Yes, that's exactly my intention. There should be shared mailboxes for
> departments or other groups of people. People having access to those
> folders should be able to create subfolders but they should not be able
> to add new folders directly under "Shared".
>
>   
>> It sounds like he just wants to be able to SELECT the root of a namespace.
>>     
>
> I'd like to be able to deliver e.g. new mail to the technical support
> directly to "Shared/tech/" but if that's not possible, it isn't a big
> problem, I'll just use "Shared/tech/INCOMING".
>
> Cheers,
> --leo
>   
You can't deliver to namespaces using 1.0 dovecot tree only 1.1 support it.