[Dovecot] shared virtual (plugin) mailboxes?

Frank Cusack fcusack at fcusack.com
Fri Dec 11 21:51:17 EET 2009


On December 11, 2009 2:41:58 PM -0500 Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 14:26 -0500, Frank Cusack wrote:
>> 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
>
> What does it log with mail_debug=yes? The above location should work,
> and it does work with me..

Works for me now also.  I am 100% sure that the config is exactly the
same as when it didn't work.  I changed the config back, added debug,
removed the /var/maildir/frank/virtual directory and now it works.

very odd.

-frank


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