On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:44:18 +0100 Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi wrote:
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 11:33 +0100, Kenneth Cope wrote:
namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = . type = private }
This is ok.
namespace { hidden = yes inbox = no list = no location = prefix = INBOX separator = . type = private }
This doesn't much make sense and I doubt Dovecot actually uses it for anything. Just remove it.
namespace { list = children location = maildir:%%h:LAYOUT=maildir++:INDEX=~/shared.%Dn_%Dd prefix = shared/%n@%d.
I forgot, prefix here should contain %%u, not %u, because %u gets expanded to your own username while you want it to be expanding to other users' username.. I'll add a check against this.
Unfortunately, I can't use %%u variable as is. The usernames
contain the dot character. That's essentially why I was using the
%Dn_%Dd construct. I can't find a way of doing this type os
escaping/modifying for the %% variables.
%%Dn, for example, gives:Sep 02 16:26:01 auth: Debug: passwd-file(@23foxgrove.co.uk): lookup: user=@23foxgrove.co.uk file=/usr/local/dovecot-2.0.1/auth/passwd.dovecot
%D%n, does not work, understandably, and caused a LOT of error
messages and stops the server being usable.
I was originally hoping for a modifier for the dot character in
variables, in the same way that the quote characters can be escaped
with the %E prefix modifier.
I'm pretty sure that I can't change the separator to a '/' as there
is a large installed user base and we'd prefer this to be as
transparent as possible.
All this help is appreciated.Kenneth Cope.
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