Re: [Dovecot] My "%%" variables in the namespace settings do not appear to be expanding.

On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 11:33 +0100, Kenneth Cope wrote:

I can not get the %% variable expansion in a namespace to work.
What I end up with, on an IMAP connection is a directory named, for
instance, '%h'.  The same goes for any of the %% variables used at
this point.  My current set-up is 'not' the same as the current
setup and I'm using virtual users that are not 'live' on the
current system.

Set mail_debug=yes. What does it log when 1) logging in and 2) when it creates the %% directory (or is that also on login)?

namespace { list = children location = maildir:%%h:LAYOUT=maildir++:INDEX=~/shared.%Dn_%Dd prefix = shared/%n@%d.

prefix = shared.%u.

Although this won't work well because your username most likely has '.' characters. The only good solution would be to change all separators to '/', but that can then cause problems with existing clients that use your system (possibly requiring some kind of client cache refresh / account recreation).