[Dovecot] namespaces, shared mailboxes

[Benjamin R. Haskell]

On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth wrote:
> 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/".)

I figured as much; sorry to have been unclear. I was just pointing out 
that Nikolay's concern about 'deliver' was orthogonal to the 
non-SELECT-able namespace-root problem.

Best,
Ben