When I look in /var/log/mail I see and error 89 (which I understand is a generic error) and IMAP(fred): Failed to create storage for 'Public/' with data: /var/mail/public
That means Dovecot doesn't know what /var/mail/public is supposed to be. Setting location = maildir:/var/mail/public or mbox:/var/mail/public >might work, although it might just say that it doesn't have permission and fail again..
So I tried
--------------------- cut ------------------------- ### this should give each user a mail store default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/%lu/%u/Maildir
### Create Public mail store namespace public { separator = / prefix = Public/ location = maildir:/var/mail/public inbox = no hidden = no }
### Create mail store for accounts namespace shared { separator = / prefix = Accounts/ location = maildir:/var/mail/accounts inbox = no hidden = no } --------------------- cut -------------------------
And now I get my two namespace directories (Public and Accounts) but my users mailstore have vanished from the client???
Any ideas?
Daveh