On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 03:48 -0700, Joakim Ryden wrote:
With this, "Public Folders" shows up (testing with Thunderbird) but not as an italic special folder (does that make sense?) as it does on all other accounts I have on other servers which support public folders.
I think I heard that Thunderbird uses IMAP ACL extension to check if some mailbox is shared or not. Dovecot doesn't support IMAP ACL extension yet. Or it might be something else too I suppose.
which also shows up nicely, I can copy email in there and subscribe and unsubsribe to this subfolder, but clicking on "Public Folders" gives: Mailbox doesn't exist: Public Folders. which I'm sure is because I've missed or misunderstood something :) Any ideas?
Well, unfortunately that doesn't work. Dovecot doesn't currently support subscribing to namespace prefixes, only to mailboxes inside the namespace. You might be able to kludge around that by making the subscription go to the private namespace. Either manually updating the subscriptions file, or removing this code from src/imap/cmd-subscriptions.c:
if (!client_verify_mailbox_name(cmd, verify_name, subscribe, FALSE))
return TRUE;Actually another problem you're going to have is those shared namespace subscriptions, unless you want to force every user to have same ones. If you don't, you'll need to set CONTROL path to user-specific directory.
For Dovecot v1.1 I'll try to figure out how to make all this work better.