[Dovecot] Public mailboxes

[Frank Bonnet]

Le 19/05/2012 22:49, Timo Sirainen a écrit :
> On 19.5.2012, at 23.40, Frank Bonnet wrote:
>
>> Le 19/05/2012 20:44, Timo Sirainen a écrit :
>>> On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 14:31 +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm trying to setup a server with public mailboxes only
>>>> but I cannot succeed.
>>> Do you still have specific users? Do you want the users to have
>>> subscriptions? Do you need ACLs?
>> yes I need specific users using ACL
>> and yes I would like users have subsciptions
> OK, so then you need to have a per-user mail_location for the subscriptions. Something like:
>
> namespace {
>   list = children
>   location = maildir:/var/mail/public
>   prefix = public/
>   separator = /
>   subscriptions = no
>   type = public
> }
> namespace inbox {
>   location = maildir:/var/lib/dovecot/empty:CONTROL=/var/mail/user/%u
>   prefix = /
>   inbox = yes
> }
>
> With the "empty" directory being non-writable, the users can't create any private mailboxes, but with the writable control directory they can store subscriptions there.

So in that case Thunderbird will "see" the subscribables folders that
are living in /var/mail/public ?

Thank you