subfolders in public mailboxes

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Fri, 18 Jul 2014, Burak Arslan wrote:

> I added this to the configuration:
>
> namespace {
>  type = public
>  separator = .
>  prefix = public.
>  location = maildir:/var/mail/public
>  subscriptions = no
>  list = yes
> }
>
> and I can list maildirs inside these folders correctly. however, I can't
> see any subfolders.
>
> The issue seems to be that /var/mail/public dir itself is interpreted as
> a maildir directory.
>
> However, what I'd like to do is to have a bunch of directories inside
> /var/mail/public and treat them as separate maildirs. (I'd like to use
> this to make a few existing mailboxes public)
>
> is this possible?

Not that I know of.

You could use shared mailboxes: 
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes/Shared

Another Workaround might be to run a cron job to symlink mailboxes of 
"public" mailboxes into /var/.../public, e.g.:

/var/mail/user1/Maildir/{cur,new,tmp}
/var/mail/user1/Maildir/.box1/{cur,new,tmp}

- ->

ln -s /var/mail/user1/Maildir /var/mail/public/.user1
ln -s /var/mail/user1/Maildir/.box1 /var/mail/public/.user1.box1

Be aware of permission problems, e.g. all user might be able to delete 
change mails in the public mailboxes.

a.s.o.

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Steffen Kaiser
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