Re: Separators and shared namespaces

On 27/09/2023 12:03 EEST martin f krafft via dovecot dovecot@dovecot.org wrote:

Hello,

I am running Dovcecot 2.3.19 on Debian, and I am trying to get shared to work.

It's working if I do this:

namespace {
   type = shared
   separator = /
   prefix = Team/%%u/
   location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=%h/Maildir/Team/%%u:INDEXPVT=%h/Maildir/Team/%%u
   subscriptions = no
   list = children
}

After setting some ACLs, I now have the following in LIST output:

…
. LIST "" *
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" INBOX
[…]
* LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" Team/rechnungseingang@example.org
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Team/rechnungseingang@example.org/Archiv bearbeitete Rechnungen"
. OK List completed (0.003 + 0.000 + 0.007 secs).

However, since I am using Maildir, the default separator is ., and so I have to change the separator for the inbox namespace, which makes me feel uneasy. The system still uses .dotted.notation on the filesystem despite the namespace change, and subfolders and all still work, but it still rubs me the wrong way to do this.

And yet, when I try to use . like this:

   separator = .
   prefix = Team.%%u.
   location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=%h/Maildir/.Team,%%u:INDEXPVT=%h/Maildir/.Team.%%u

then nothing shows up in LIST output. Any idea why this might be?

Thanks,

-- martin krafft | https://matrix.to/#/#madduck:madduck.net Hi!

The physical (file system) separator and hierachy separator are not related. You can safely change the hierarchy separator to / .

There is nothing wrong about this.

The shared namespace should have list=children, and you will not see anything by default, unless you have acl_shared_dict and have actually shared a folder.

Aki