Eric Shubert wrote:
I have 3 servers running dovecot 1.0.10. 2 of them are configured with a shared/public namespace, but I'm having trouble getting it to work on the third, even with 2 working examples to go by. There's something I'm missing, and I'm hoping that someone here can see/tell what it is.
I've created the maildir for sharing: # cd /home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com # maildirmake shared # chown -R vpopmail:vchkpw shared
Then added the configuration to dovecot.conf: # shared namespace namespace shared { separator = . prefix = shared. location = maildir:/home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/shared }
Restarted dovecot: # service dovecot restart
When I try to subscribe to the shared namespace though with Outlook, I get: "Failed to subscribe the folder. Server responded: 'Mailbox doesn't exist: shared'." When I try to subscribe with Squirrelmail I get: "ERROR: Could not complete request. Query: SUBSCRIBE "shared" Reason Given: [TRYCREATE] Mailbox doesn't exist: shared"
I've tried various combinations of permissions to no avail.
Suggestions welcome. I'm at my wits end.
So I created a few subfolders. # cd /home/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/shared # maildirmake .sub1 # maildirmake .sub2 # chown vpopmail:vchkpw sub*
Voila, sort of. The main folder named 'shared' cannot be subscribed to, however sub1 and sub2 can be subscribed to successfully.
Can someone explain why that is? Thanks.
-Eric 'shubes'