hi all,
I'm a long time courier-imap user and just switched to dovecot-1.2.1. my MTA is qmail and all user accounts are virtual vpopmail users.
getting dovecot to work was mostly painless, but I am desperately trying to share a user's mailbox and can't seem to figure out how. unfortunately the documentation is not very helpful.
I am trying to share the mailbox /home/vpopmail/domains/ example.com/someuser/Maildir
here's what I put in dovecot.conf:
namespace shared { separator = . prefix = shared.%%u. location = maildir:/home/vpopmail/domains/%%d/%%n/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u subscriptions = no list = yes }
I then logged in as someuser and did a "setacl anyone Inbox lrip". /home/vpopmail/domains/example.com/shared-mailboxes.db now contains an entry
shared/shared-boxes/anyone/someuser@example.com 1
and /home/vpopmail/domains/example.com/someuser/Maildir/dovecot-acl has
anyone ilpr
however, when I connect to the server, the client does not see the "shared" namespace. also, dovecot seems to be creating empty shared-mailboxes.db in /home/vpopmail/domains/example/ (missing .com!).
I'm very confused at this point, but I'm sure someone has gotten this to work and can help me out. fwiw, the output of dovecot -n is appended.
thanks!
- Dave.