[Dovecot] shared mailboxes question

[Cory Coager]

Hmm, this didn't work for me.  The namespace is empty, nothing to 
subscribe to.

Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Cory Coager wrote:
>
>> I'm using a virtual mailbox setup.  Lets say my users have mailboxes 
>> in /home/vmail/domain/%u.  What I'm trying to do is setup one 
>> namespace that points to /home/vmail/domain and contains everyones 
>> mailboxes that I can subscribe to.  Is this possible?
>
> Seems kind of an odd workaround, but I just tried setting up:
> mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/.%u
> namespace public {
>  separator = /
>  prefix = users/
>  location = maildir:/var/mail
> }
> namespace private {
>  separator = /
>  prefix =
>  inbox = yes
> }
>
> It makes listing all user mailboxes possible. (Each test user I logged 
> in with made another mailbox appear in LIST "" "users/%" )
>
> For me, there are definite permissions problems, that I might be able 
> to work around with one or more of: login scripts, ACL's, or the 
> dovecot-shared file described in SharedMailboxes:
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/PostLoginScripting
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/ACL
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes#line-12
>
> You, with virtual users, might want to use a single UID. (if you 
> aren't already)
>
> Best,
> Ben