Can anyone point out where i'm going wrong with my dovecot sharedinbox setup with ACL i'm contemplating giving up with dovecot alltogether i've spent 3 days trying different paths to the virtual users mailboxes

I seem to have two issues

my acls are getting written to my sql db fine

in roundcube i can see the shared folder but cant subscribe to it

in thunderbird if i go to namespaces it sees the shared. namespace but its not listing anything in it even though my acls are written to the db

please someone tell me what i'm missing i'm betting its something silly but i've been over and over the wiki

here is my conf and below it an extract of my debug log

# 2.2.28 (bed8434): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-642.3.1.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS release 6.9 (Final) auth_cache_size = 1 M auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_policy_hash_mech = sha512 auth_policy_hash_nonce = 78204771 auth_policy_hash_truncate = 64 auth_policy_request_attributes = auth_database=mail database=mail service=dovecot username=%{orig_user} authtoken_hash=$0$0$%{hashed_password} local_host=%{real_lip} local_port=%{real_lport} remote_host=%{real_rip} remote_port=%{real_rport} auth_policy_server_api_header = X-API-Key:dovecot:xxxxxxxxxxxx auth_policy_server_timeout_msecs = 3000 auth_policy_server_url = http://127.0.0.1:579/dovecot-auth-policy auth_username_chars = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789!#$-=?^_{}~./@+%" auth_verbose = yes dict { acl = sqlite:/usr/local/cpanel/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-shares.conf.ext expire = sqlite:/usr/local/cpanel/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-expire.conf.ext } disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 201 lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lmtp_save_to_detail_mailbox = yes login_greeting = Welcome to Motorsport Tools mail_access_groups = dovecot mail_debug = yes mail_plugins = acl quota quota_clone fts fts_solr mail_prefetch_count = 20 mailbox_list_index = yes namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Archive { auto = create special_use = \Archive } mailbox Archives { auto = no special_use = \Archive } mailbox Drafts { auto = subscribe special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { auto = create special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { auto = subscribe special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { auto = no special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { auto = subscribe special_use = \Trash } mailbox spam { auto = create special_use = \Junk } prefix = INBOX. separator = . type = private } passdb { args = /usr/local/cpanel/etc/dovecot/cpauthd-dict.conf driver = dict result_failure = return-fail } passdb { args = /usr/local/cpanel/bin/dovecot-wrap driver = checkpassword skip = authenticated } plugin { acl = vfile:cache_secs=86400 acl_anyone = allow acl_shared_dict = proxy::acl expire_cache = yes fts = solr fts_solr = url=http://lTkFlGxjRar1hZAW:Ocj1FRRvlUs5Udj6@127.0.0.1:8984/solr/dovecot/ quota_exceeded_message = Mailbox is full please archive you old mail zlib_save = gz } protocols = lmtp imap service auth { unix_listener auth-client { mode = 0666 } } service config { vsz_limit = 2 G } service dict { unix_listener dict { group = dovecot mode = 0660 } } service imap-login { client_limit = 500 inet_listener imap { address = *,:: } inet_listener imaps { address = *,:: } process_limit = 100 process_min_avail = 8 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 128 M } service imap { process_limit = 1024 vsz_limit = 512 M } service lmtp { client_limit = 1 process_limit = 500 unix_listener lmtp { group = mail mode = 0660 user = mailnull } vsz_limit = 512 M } service managesieve-login { client_limit = 500 process_limit = 100 process_min_avail = 8 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 128 M } service managesieve { process_limit = 1024 vsz_limit = 512 M } service quota-status { executable = quota-status -p postfix unix_listener quota-status { mode = 0666 } } ssl = required ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/ssl/dovecot.crt ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!ADH:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:-LOW:-SSLv2:-EXP ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it ssl_protocols = !SSLv2 !SSLv3 userdb { driver = prefetch } userdb { args = /usr/local/cpanel/etc/dovecot/cpauthd-dict.conf driver = dict } userdb { args = /usr/local/cpanel/bin/dovecot-wrap driver = checkpassword } protocol imap { imap_capability = +NAMESPACE imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_idle_notify_interval = 24 mins imap_logout_format = in=%i, out=%o, bytes=%i/%o mail_location = maildir:~/ mail_max_userip_connections = 60 mail_plugins = acl quota imap_quota imap_acl imap_zlib quota_clone virtual fts fts_solr namespace { hidden = no list = yes location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEXPVT=~/mail/virtual/%u/shared/%%u prefix = Shared.%%u. separator = . subscriptions = no type = shared } namespace sent { hidden = yes list = no location = virtual:/usr/local/cpanel/etc/dovecot/virtual/sent:INDEX=~/mail/virtual/%u prefix = sent separator = . } namespace spam { hidden = yes list = no location = virtual:/usr/local/cpanel/etc/dovecot/virtual/spam:INDEX=~/mail/virtual/%u prefix = spam separator = . } } protocol lda { mail_plugins = quota quota_clone postmaster_address = root quota_full_tempfail = no } local_name home.servers.co.uk www.home.servers.co.uk { ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/ssl/dovecot.crt ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it } local_name website1.com www.website1.com www.website2.com website2.com { ssl_cert = </var/cpanel/ssl/domain_tls/website1.com/combined ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it

i see this alot

Debug: acl vfile: reading file /home/server/mail/website2.com/sales/.ebay.Sent/dovecot-acl

this is how my path currently looks in debug but i've tried all sorts

Jun 23 22:32:47 ssd99 dovecot: imap(sales@website2.com): Debug: Namespace : type=shared, prefix=Shared.%u., sep=., inbox=no, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=no location=maildir:%h/Maildir:INDEXPVT=~/mail/virtual/sales@website2.com/shared/%u

this is what my private namespace paths relate to

Jun 23 22:32:47 ssd99 dovecot: imap(sales@website2.com): Debug: Namespace sent: type=private, prefix=sent, sep=., inbox=no, hidden=yes, list=no, subscriptions=yes location=virtual:/usr/local/cpanel/etc/dovecot/virtual/sent:INDEX=~/mail/virtual/sales@website2.com Jun 23 22:32:47 ssd99 dovecot: imap(sales@website2.com): Debug: fs: root=/usr/local/cpanel/etc/dovecot/virtual/sent, index=/home/server/mail/website2.com/sales/mail/virtual/sales@website2.com, indexpvt=, control=, inbox=, alt=

please someone must know the answer