Re: [Dovecot] Thunderbird and shared mailboxes

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namespace: type: shared separator: / prefix: shared/%%u/ location: maildir:/home/imapmail/%%u/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u list: children

You should have subscriptions=no here. Other than that, it looks ok to me.

I actually do have "subscriptions=no" there, but dovecot -n doesn't report it.

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2 select shared/kae/stuff 2 NO Invalid mailbox name: shared/kae/stuff

This is correct. Did you look at the log file for errors when trying it?

I did have errors relating to the tilde in the INDEX entry above; I've fixed that by changing that line to:

location = maildir:/home/imapmail/%%u/Maildir:INDEX=/home/imapmail/%u/shared/%%u

I've put the full output of 'dovecot -n' at the foot of this mail.

However, I still don't seem to be able to select the shared folder:

1 login def def 1 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS ACL RIGHTS=texk] Logged in 2 select shared/kae/stuff 2 NO Mailbox doesn't exist: stuff 3 logout

• BYE Logging out 3 OK Logout completed.

1 login kae kae 1 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS ACL RIGHTS=texk] Logged in 2 getacl stuff

• ACL "stuff" "def" lr "kae" lrwstipekxacd 2 OK Getacl completed. 3 logout
• BYE Logging out 3 OK Logout completed.

The only log entries from the above are login/logout messages, no errors.

Timo, very grateful for your continuing help, and hoping we can get this resolved soon. 3 OK Logout completed.

Thanks, Keith

dovecot -n:

# dovecot -n # 1.2.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.26-2-486 i686 Debian 5.0.4 ext3 log_path: /var/log/dovecot.err log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_location: maildir:/home/imapmail/%u mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_plugins: acl imap_acl namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: public separator: / prefix: info/ location: maildir:/home/imapmail/public/info:CONTROL=/home/imapmail/public/info/.%u.control:INDEX=/home/imapmail/public/info/.%u.index list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: public separator: / prefix: customers/ location: maildir:/home/imapmail/public/customers:CONTROL=/home/imapmail/public/customers/.%u.control:INDEX=/home/imapmail/public/customers/.%u.index list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: shared separator: / prefix: shared/%%u/ location: maildir:/home/imapmail/%%u/Maildir:INDEX=/home/imapmail/%u/shared/%%u list: children auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: static args: uid=imapmail gid=imapmail plugin: acl: vfile acl_shared_dict: file:/var/tmp/shared-mailboxes mail_log_events: delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields: uid box msgid size from subject #