[Dovecot] Path to public folder subscription file not created in 1.1b7?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sat Nov 17 02:11:41 EET 2007


On 17.11.2007, at 1.44, Adam McDougall wrote:

> I use CONTROL=%h/Maildir/dovecot/public/control/[namespace] for  
> each of my public
> namespaces.  A few nights ago, I noticed having a new user  
> subscribe to public folders
> for the first time will silently fail, becuase the path up to the  
> subscriptions file
> will not be created.

It should have logged an error. But yes, this did change recently.  
Fixed now in hg.

> namespace:
>   type: public
>   separator: /
>   prefix: #shared/decs/
>   location:
> maildir:/egr/mail/shared/decs:CONTROL=%h/Maildir/dovecot/public/ 
> control/decs:INDEX=%h/Maildir/dovecot/%q/public/indexes/decs
>   list: yes
>   subscriptions: yes

If you set subscriptions=no they'll be stored in the root namespace's  
subscriptions. If there are no problems with permissions, you could  
use a shared control directory for all users.
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