Dear all, I am hoping someone can help me with a problem that I have been trying to fix for days. Using postfix and dovecot 2.0.19 on Ubuntu 12.04 with LDAP authentication and virtual users and domains.

Basically I want to setup both shared and public mailboxes. The shared part is working fine, ie I can share folders successfully and other uses can see them. However when I try and create sub folders in the public folder they don't show up in the client. I have tried creating them in manually in the filesystem ie mkdir .folder and also via thunderbird. I have read through the dovecot wiki's several times over and still cannot see why it won't work. I have debug turned on and these are the log messages I get in syslog when I start up thunderbird:

acl: No lookup right to mailbox: public/folder

acl vfile: file /home/example.com/public/.folder/dovecot-acl not found

acl vfile: file /home/example.com/public/dovecot-acl not found

So I create the dovecot-acl file manually in public and set the right file system permissions and the errors go away, yet the folder still doesn't get created despite the following getting logged in syslog.

Jan 29 23:43:57 alpha dovecot: imap(testuser@example.com): Debug: Namespace public/: /home/example.com/public/.folder2 doesn't exist yet, using default permissions

Jan 29 23:43:57 alpha dovecot: imap(testuser@example.com): Debug: Namespace public/: Using permissions from /home/example.com/public: mode=0777 gid=-1

Right now I am thinking the problem might be that I am trying to setup both shared and public namespaces within the same configuration and therefore dovecot is looking for acl's for the public when it shouldn't be? Feel like I am stabbing in the dark with this though.

Any help anyone can offer will be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance.

Regards, Michael.

Here is my dovecot.conf

# 2.0.19: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

# OS: Linux 2.6.32-042stab072.10 i686 Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS

auth_debug_passwords = yes

auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master

auth_verbose = yes

disable_plaintext_auth = no

lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes

log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S "

mail_debug = yes

mail_gid = vmail

mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir

mail_plugins = quota acl

mail_privileged_group = mail

mail_uid = vmail

namespace {

inbox = yes

location =

prefix =

separator = /

type = private

}

namespace {

hidden = no

inbox = no

list = yes

location = maildir:/home/%%d/%%n/Maildir:INDEX=/home/%d/%n/Maildir/Shared/%%n

prefix = Shared/%%n/

separator = /

subscriptions = no

type = shared

}

namespace {

hidden = no

list = yes

location = maildir:/home/%d/public

prefix = public/

separator = /

subscriptions = no

type = public

}

passdb {

args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext

driver = ldap

}

passdb {

driver = pam

}

plugin {

acl = vfile

acl_anyone = allow

acl_shared_dict = file:/home/%d/shared-mailboxes.db

quota = maildir

quota_rule = *:storage=25GB

quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=+10%%

quota_warning = storage=95%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95

}

postmaster_address = postmaster@example.com

protocols = imap pop3

quota_full_tempfail = yes

sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail

service auth {

unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {

group = postfix

mode = 0660

user = postfix

}

unix_listener auth-master {

group = vmail

mode = 0600

user = vmail

}

user = root

}

service imap-login {

chroot = login

executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login

inet_listener imap {

address = *

port = 143

}

inet_listener imaps {

address = *

port = 993

ssl = yes

}

user = dovecot

}

service imap {

executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap

}

service pop3-login {

chroot = login

inet_listener pop3 {

address = *

port = 110

}

inet_listener pop3s {

address = *

port = 995

ssl = yes

}

user = dovecot

}

ssl_cert =

ssl_key =

userdb {

args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext

driver = ldap

}

userdb {

driver = passwd

}

protocol imap {

mail_plugins = quota imap_quota acl imap_acl

}

protocol pop3 {

mail_plugins = quota

pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv

}

protocol lda {

auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master

mail_plugins = quota

postmaster_address = postmaster@example.com

sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail

}