[Dovecot] namespaces, shared mailboxes

[Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth]

On 12/02/2007 09:35 PM, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Nikolay Shopik wrote:
>> On 02.12.2007 23:21, Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> 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".
>>>
>> You can't deliver to namespaces using 1.0 dovecot tree only 1.1
>> support it.
>>
> Using dovecot's 'deliver' in 1.0, you can't. It's pretty easy using
> another MDA/LDA.
> 
> e.g. using procmail: DEFAULT=/var/spool/mail/Shared/tech/

Yes, I'm already doing exactly that:
tech-support: "| /usr/bin/procmail DEFAULT=/var/spool/mail/Shared/tech/
UMASK=007"

But the problem is that clients won't see the mails, unless I create an
empty directory "/var/spool/mail/Shared/tech/.INBOX". Once that
directory is in place, clients will show the delivered mails in
"Shared/tech/INBOX". (Even though I delivered them to "../tech/".)

Cheers,
--leo
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