My next bonehead maneuver - was more of the first! location = virtual:/var/mail/%%d/%%n/mdbox/mailboxes/virtual

was adapted from my definition for my shared namespace. Which was intended to share OTHER users - which is why the '%%' prefixes are used. Changing to: location = virtual:/var/mail/%d/%n/mdbox/mailboxes/virtual

Now I can actually view something! But I still have a challenge - the mailboxes don't allow subscriptions via IMAP. If I manually edit the "subscriptions" file I can force it and I can now browse & view - but I can't make changes via IMAP clients. What else am I missing?

-- Daniel

On 2015-06-22 10:31, dmiller@amfes.com wrote:

Any ideas on what I need to check or should post to help find the problem?

-- Daniel

On 2015-06-20 14:50, dmiller@amfes.com wrote:

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The first bonehead maneuver seems to be: location = virtual:/var/mail/%%d/%%n/mdbox/virtual I'm thinking it should be: location = virtual:/var/mail/%%d/%%n/mdbox/mailboxes/virtual

But...it didn't seem to make a difference. And if I have the "virtual" folder tree under a location other than "/var/mail/domain/user/mdbox/mailboxes" no names appear - so I think I have the files in the right place. Any ideas?

-- Daniel

On 2015-06-20 14:34, dmiller@amfes.com wrote:

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Having some trouble with my first attempt at virtual mailboxes. I've enabled the plugin in 10-mail.conf, added a virtual namespace, and created the dovecot-virtual files in the folders.

I see the folder names in the list when I refresh the folders available for subscription - but the folders cannot be subscribed to and I can't view their contents. What obvious mistake did I make?

doveconf -n: auth_cache_size = 4 k auth_mechanisms = plain login default_login_user = nobody default_vsz_limit = 1 G dict { acl = mysql:/usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext } disable_plaintext_auth = no listen = * mail_attachment_dir = /var/mail/attachments mail_plugins = fts fts_solr acl zlib virtual mail_shared_explicit_inbox = yes managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mdbox_rotate_interval = 1 days mdbox_rotate_size = 32 M namespace { hidden = no inbox = yes list = yes location = prefix = separator = / subscriptions = yes type = private } namespace { list = children location = mdbox:/var/mail/%%d/%%n/mdbox prefix = shared/%%n/ separator = / subscriptions = no type = shared } namespace { location = virtual:/var/mail/%%d/%%n/mdbox/virtual prefix = virtual/ separator = / } passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } plugin { acl = vfile:/usr/local/etc/dovecot/global-acls:cache_secs=300 acl_shared_dict = proxy::acl fts = solr fts_autoindex = yes fts_solr = break-imap-search url=http://solr.amfes.lan:8983/solr/ sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap lmtp sieve service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = mail mode = 0600 user = vmail } } service dict { unix_listener dict { group = mail mode = 0660 user = vmail } } service imap-login { process_limit = 200 process_min_avail = 10 service_count = 1 } service lmtp { process_min_avail = 5 unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = mail mode = 0666 user = vmail } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } inet_listener sieve_deprecated { port = 2000 } process_min_avail = 0 service_count = 1 } ssl_cert =

Given my mail storage location of /var/mail/%%d/%%n, I have created: /var/mail/mydomain/myname/virtual/newfolder

and within that folder created a dovecot-virtual. I created a few like this from the wiki samples - the folder names are visible but no contents.

-- Daniel