On Feb 6, 2008, at 10:33 PM, Jochen wrote:
Hello Timo,
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 09:39:33PM +0200, you wrote:
Or did you create the maildir directories as "aatest" and not ".aatest"? The dot is required.
Hey. That was the problem. Sorry for the confusion. I think I have to read the Maildir specification a second time.
It's a Maildir++ thing.
dovecot tries to create directories (at least "cur") just below the location: location = maildir:/var/spool/imap/shared
This is kind of a bug, but too big of a change for v1.0. It's already
been fixed in v1.1.
Btw: Which permissions are required for read-only shared Maildir boxes? Dovecot itself runs under root account but it seems that the children changes to the user, which is actually logged in?
http://wiki.dovecot.org/UserIds explains this a bit. So the mail
user(s) need to have read-permissions to the maildir. Write permission
isn't needed if you don't want users to be able to change flags and if
you've set per-user index and control dirs.