20.08.26, 22:35 +0200, Klaus Tachtler via dovecot:

This ist the way I configured "shares" and it's still working: (German language)

https://dokuwiki.tachtler.net/doku.php?id=tachtler:dovecot_archlinux_-_share...

Thanks for your answer, but I don't think that it helps in my situation.

AFAICT, you describe a setup where mail_path is a subdirectory of mail_home with a fixed name ("Maildir", same for all users). In that case, you can get the owner's mail_path by appending "Maildir" to %{owner_home}. That won't work for me, where mail_home and mail_path point to different paths (not one being subpath of the other).

What I fail to understand is why I can use %{owner_username} and %{owner_domain} in mail_home but not in mail_path, i. e.

namespace shared { type = shared

This works fine

mail_home = /var/spool/vmail/home/%{owner_domain}/%{owner_username}

while this generates an "Unknown variable" error

mail_path = /var/spool/vmail/mail/%{owner_domain}/%{owner_username} }

And what should I do instead to make sure that, in the shared namespace, mail_path points to the sharing user's path and not to the one of the "client" who wants to access it?

-- Regards mks