[Dovecot] How create shared Maildir ?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 18:50 +0900, mlus wrote:
> Hello,  I'm bigginer dovecot.
> I use dovecot version 1.0.15 (rc)  on debian .
> 
> How create shared maildir ?
> 
> I try to ..................
> 
> # mkdir /home/share
> # maildirmake.dovecot /home/share/Maildir
> # chown root:mail /home/share
> # chmod 660 /home/share
> 
> 
> # vi /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> -------- add  this   ----------
> namespace public {
>   separator = /
>   prefix = share.
>   location = maildir:/home/share/Maildir
> }

A namespace will contain multiple mailboxes. Typically you'd have
several mailboxes created under /home/share/Maildir, such as:

/home/share/Maildir/.First shared box/
/home/share/Maildir/.Second shared box/

> Thunderbird can see "share" , but can't subscribe.....

That's because "share" is a namespace prefix and not a mailbox.
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