[Dovecot] shared virtual (plugin) mailboxes?

Frank Cusack fcusack at fcusack.com
Fri Dec 11 21:26:13 EET 2009


On December 11, 2009 2:18:08 PM -0500 Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 14:14 -0500, Frank Cusack wrote:
>> > location = virtual:/etc/dovecot/virtual:INDEX=~/Maildir/virtual
>>
>> That doesn't seem to work.  First I get
>> Fatal: Namespace initialization failed
>> virtual: Root mail directory doesn't exist: /var/maildir/frank/virtual.
>
> Are you sure you wrote it exactly like above? That error message looks
> like you did virtual:~/Maildir/virtual.

  location = virtual:/etc/dovecot/virtual:INDEX=/var/maildir/%n/virtual

(/var/maildir/%n is in fact the same as ~ right now using a file but
later when I use LDAP it won't be)

I got it working with INDEX=MEMORY but is probably fine considering the
nature of virtual mailboxes.

-frank


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