On 27.6.2012, at 0.19, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
If you are working with 2.0 or later dovecot, you should be at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Namespaces
I am using 2.1.7 . I surmise from this Namespace page that the form: namespace <type> { where <type> is one of "public", "private", or "shared" creates an unnamed namespace of type <type> while the form: namespace <name> { where <name> is none of "public", "private", or "shared", creates a namespace with the name <name> and the default type (unspecified on this page, but probably private).
I don't see any of that in the wiki2 page. Maybe you were looking at wiki1 page.
The namespace can be given the type desired by an (undocumented) namespace setting: namespace inbox ( type = <type> Is this correct?
It's mentioned in examples :) Yeah, could be more clearly mentioned in the wiki page too. Of course it's already in the example-config/conf.d/10-mail.conf file. The <name> part in namespace <name> { } should also be in the wiki page, although that's not namespace-specific thing at all, but works everywhere in dovecot.conf. It simply gives a (human-readable) name for the namespace within the configuration, it doesn't actually do anything.