[Dovecot] Weird glitches with public folders - Dovecot not using per-user INDEX?

Charles Marcus CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com
Sat Oct 2 21:45:48 EEST 2010


At a bare minimum, it is always a good idea to at least say what version
you're using...

On 2010-10-02 10:29 AM, Kádár Tamás (KTamas) wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have this public folder:
> 
> namespace {
>   location = maildir:/home/_shared/projects:INDEX=~/Maildir/_shared
>   prefix = shared.
>   separator = .
>   subscriptions = no
>   type = public
> }
> 
> Access is controlled by ACLs, everyone who has access is 'lrwstipek'
> except for some people who also have 'xa' privileges.
> 
> As you can see it is set to put its index to the user's Maildir so
> they can have per-user \Seen flags. And that is the case -- most of
> the time anyway. But for some folders, and I can't figure out why
> those, they just don't work: if someone sets a message read it
> immediately becomes read for everyone else, too, and vice versa if
> someone marks a message unread, it becomes unread everywhere. Further
> investigation shows that in these problematic folders, indeed all
> users directly manipulate the flag of the email (i.e. X marks email Z
> read, ",S" appears immediatelly in the filename).
> 
> Anyone knows what I'm doing wrong? I can't seem to find anything
> different with these problematic folders, ACLs look right etc.

-- 

Best regards,

Charles


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