[Dovecot] Thunderbird and shared mailboxes

[Keith Edmunds]

To recap: user 'kae' has set an acl sharing his folder 'stuff' with user
'def'.

As kae:

> 3 getacl stuff
> * ACL "stuff" "def" lr "kae" lrwstipekxacd
> 3 OK Getacl completed.

As user def:

> 2 list "" *
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Trash"
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX"
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "info"
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "customers"
> 2 OK List completed.

Timo said:

> Looks ok. dovecot -n output would help.

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# dovecot -n
# 1.2.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-486 i686 Debian 5.0.4 ext3
log_path: /var/log/dovecot.err
log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
disable_plaintext_auth: no
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
mail_location: maildir:/home/imapmail/%u
mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock
mail_plugins: acl imap_acl
namespace:
  type: private
  separator: /
  inbox: yes
  list: yes
  subscriptions: yes
namespace:
  type: public
  separator: /
  prefix: info/
  location:
maildir:/home/imapmail/public/info:CONTROL=/home/imapmail/public/info/.%u.control:INDEX=/home/imapmail/public/info/.%u.index
list: yes subscriptions: yes
namespace:
  type: public
  separator: /
  prefix: customers/
  location:
maildir:/home/imapmail/public/customers:CONTROL=/home/imapmail/public/customers/.%u.control:INDEX=/home/imapmail/public/customers/.%u.index
list: yes subscriptions: yes
namespace:
  type: shared
  separator: /
  prefix: shared/%%u/
  location: maildir:/home/imapmail/%%u/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u
  list: children
auth default:
  passdb:
    driver: pam
  userdb:
    driver: static
    args: uid=imapmail gid=imapmail
plugin:
  acl: vfile
  acl_shared_dict: file:/var/tmp/shared-mailboxes
  mail_log_events: delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete
mailbox_rename mail_log_fields: uid box msgid size from subject
#
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> What about if you try to SELECT the mailbox directly?

I'm not sure that I have the syntax exactly correct; however, as user
'def':

2 select shared/kae/stuff
2 NO Invalid mailbox name: shared/kae/stuff
3 select kae/stuff
3 NO Mailbox doesn't exist: kae.stuff

Note: the full path to the mailbox in question
is /home/imapmail/kae/.stuff

If I'm using the incorrect syntax, what should it be?

If the syntax is correct, any ideas why I can't select the mailbox?

Thanks,
Keith