[Dovecot] Dovecot + vpopmail + shared folders

[qmail at top-consulting.net]

I might have forgotten to mention that I am using . (dot) as separator.

Your original message that proposed that fix is here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/dovecot@dovecot.org/msg20706.html

I am running the IMAP commands directly through telnet and although  
the namespace exists, it doesn't show up at all:

2 namespace
* NAMESPACE (("" ".")("Labels." ".")) (("shared." ".")) NIL

here's my config for it:

namespace shared {
   separator = .
   prefix = shared.%%u.
   location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u
   #location =  
maildir:/usr/home/vpopmail/domains/P/%d/%%n/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u
   subscriptions = no
   list = children
}

If I use the location that I commented out, shared folders will work  
for all the domains that exist under /usr/home/vpopmail/domains/P

Thanks Timo!

Quoting Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:

> On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 14:43 -0500, qmail at top-consulting.net wrote:
>> I'm using dovecot 1.2.14 with vpopmail.
>>
>> I've enabled shared folders and the default setup was not working. The
>> default setup being this line:
>>
>> location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u
>>
>> Going through the Archives I saw a message from Timo that said to
>> apply a patch and use this line instead:
>>
>>
>> location =
>> maildir:/usr/home/vpopmail/domains/%d/%%n/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u
>
> I'm not sure why I would have said that (maybe you misunderstood or I
> was talking only about some specific situation or some workaround for
> something). %%h is cleaner, although it does require a userdb lookup.
>
> Why isn't %%h working? Set auth_debug=yes and mail_debug=yes and show
> what the logs say when trying to access a shared mailbox then. Also
> instead of using a client, talk IMAP protocol directly
> (http://wiki.dovecot.org/TestInstallation), something like:
>
> a LIST "" *
> b SELECT "shared/user/some-shared-box"
>
> What do the commands reply?
>
>