[Dovecot] Some questions about Shared mailboxes

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 09:58 +0300, Mihajlin Evgenij wrote:
> Hi, again.
> 
> 1. Can somebody explain me about dovecot's shared mailboxes?

What specifically is unclear in
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes/Shared that could be improved?

> 2. What does it do while searching shared mailboxes (debug_log cannot explain 
> it)? What files is it looking for?

User's mail files.. I don't really know what to answer to this.

> 3. Need i set dovecot-shared file into directory which are shared (if i want to 
> have separate flags for separate users)?

No.

> 4. Some errors are hard to understand. For example, 
> # pwd
> /var/spool/vmail/domains/badmltd.dn.ua
> 
> # ls -l
> drwx------ 3 mailnull mail 4096 Авг 27 09:24 admin
> drwx------ 3 mailnull mail 4096 Июн  3 10:51 exim
> drwx------ 3 mailnull mail 4096 Мар 26 15:08 iif
> drwx-w---- 3 mailnull mail 4096 Мар 11 15:53 jack
> drwx------ 2 mailnull mail 4096 Авг 27 09:28 Maildir
> drwx-w---- 3 mailnull mail 4096 Авг 27 09:25 test
> 
> Why did dovecot create Maildir folder???

It shouldn't have done it. Delete it. If you can reproduce it, let me
know what IMAP command did that.