[Dovecot] Public mailboxes
Frank Bonnet
f.bonnet at esiee.fr
Mon May 21 12:28:08 EEST 2012
On 05/20/2012 09:57 AM, Frank Bonnet wrote:
>
>
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> 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.
I've configured as the followin , but I am unable to list
folders inside Thunderbird with the "Subscribe" menu
# 2.1.6: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE-p3 amd64
auth_debug = yes
debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/debug.log
disable_plaintext_auth = no
info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/info.log
log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log
mail_debug = yes
mail_full_filesystem_access = yes
managesieve_notify_capability = mailto
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namespace {
list = children
location = maildir:/var/mail/public
prefix = public/
separator = /
subscriptions = no
type = public
}
namespace inbox {
inbox = yes
location =
maildir:/var/lib/dovecot/empty:CONTROL=/var/lib/dovecot/indexes/%u
mailbox Drafts {
special_use = \Drafts
}
mailbox Junk {
special_use = \Junk
}
mailbox Sent {
special_use = \Sent
}
mailbox "Sent Messages" {
special_use = \Sent
}
mailbox Trash {
special_use = \Trash
}
prefix =
separator = /
type = private
}
passdb {
args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext
driver = ldap
}
plugin {
acl = vfile
sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve
sieve_dir = ~/sieve
}
userdb {
args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext
driver = ldap
}
protocol imap {
mail_plugins = " imap_acl acl"
}
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