[Dovecot] shared namespaces with common prefix prefix

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Jan 19 14:54:35 EET 2010


On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 14:28 -0500, Frank Cusack wrote:
> On January 14, 2010 2:22:08 PM -0500 Frank Cusack <fcusack at fcusack.com> 
> wrote:
> ># to share other employees mailboxes (term'd or admin access)
> > namespace shared {
> >   separator = /
> >   prefix = zz/shared/%%u/
> >   location = maildir:/var/maildir/%%n:INDEX=/var/maildir/users/%%u
> >   subscriptions = no
> >   list = children
> > }
> 
> In the INDEX, did I really mean to use /var/maildir/%n/users/%%u?
> I mean, I think I left out the %n in my configuration.  Using a
> global directory seems to defeat the point of the separate INDEX.

Right. Another thing that seems a bit scary is that you sometimes use %n
and sometimes %u. If %n is enough to identify the user, maybe it should
be consistently used everywhere?

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