Timo ,
I fixed it. I have not exactly figure out the purpose of the/export (which I changed to /var/export) but there is directory in there that seems to need to be mode 777. When I created it, I accidentally created it as being owned by me, which explains why dovecot worked for me and no one else.
I can't compile dovecot-1.4.1 on Debian 2.6.8-4 with ssl, soupgrading it is not really an option. I get the message from config that it can't find libssl, but I linked copies of it everywhere and I don't know configure scripts well enough to guess where it is looking.
-Don
On Oct 6, 2008, at 8:36 PM, Don Steiny wrote:
Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Oct 6, 2008, at 7:40 AM, Don Steiny wrote:
a02 LSUB "" "*"
- LSUB () "/" "Trash"
- LSUB () "/" "Junk"
- LSUB () "/" "Sent"
- LSUB () "/" "Junk E-mail"
- LSUB () "/" "INBOX/Sent"
- LSUB () "/" "INBOX/Trash"
- LSUB () "/" "INBOX/Drafts" a002 NO Permission denied
Anything in error logs? Post your dovecot -n output?
No, nothing in the error logs, but here is the -a output. I tried to upgrade, but I am using Debian and have been trying to just use the released packages. It will take a bit of work to get it to compile here because the pathnames are very different. For instance, it can't find libeopenssl in the configure step so I have to figure out the best way to deal with that. I have been hunting for a newer Debian release.
backports.org has newer releases.
namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: location: maildir:~/Maildir inbox: yes hidden: no namespace: type: shared separator: / prefix: FB12/ location: mbox:/var/export/mailfb12:INDEX=/var/export/dovecot/%u inbox: no hidden: no
The problem is most likely that Dovecot tries to read the shared namespace's subscriptions from /var/export/mailfb12/.subscriptions file and that's not working too well since the same file is shared by all users. There's really no good way to handle this situation with v1.0 + mbox format. I guess the best you could do is to make sure that no-one has write accesss to the mailfb12 directory so no-one can modify the .subscriptions file (because the file is modified by recreating it, so the directory +w permission matters, the file's +w permission doesn't). Then you'll make the file contain all the mailboxes and make it world-readable.
Or you could see if backports.org has a v1.1 release and set subscriptions=no to the shared namespace. Although with mboxes you should be using v1.1.4 release since it fixes several bugs.