Public mailbox confusion

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Wed, 22 Oct 2014, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:

> The customer wants that there is a "Public" folder containing all these
> hundreds of folders, the public folder should be visible for all the
> dovecot-users and all the subfolders should be automatically subscribed
> as soon a new user logs in.

I dunno if the "automatically subscribed" can be achieved.

> namespace {
>        type = private
>        separator = /
>        prefix =
>        inbox = yes
> }
>
> namespace {
>        type = public
>        separator = /
>        prefix = Public/
>        location =
> maildir:/home/vmail/public:INDEXPVT=/home/vmail/public/index/%d/%u/index
>        subscriptions = yes
> }
>
> As far as I see from testing this doesn't yet work that way.
>
> When I open the mailbox with eg. roundcube I see "Public" but nothing
> below it ...

How does
ls -al /home/vmail/public
look like? This is _one_ Maildir storage, hence, all mailboxes have to 
comply to its naming convention: .mailbox1.sub1-1.sub1-2, ..., 
.mailbox2.sub2-1.sub2-1, ... . Do you have errors in the Dovecot logs?

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Steffen Kaiser
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