Hello everyone,

today I have tried to set up shared and public IMAP folders, but it didn't work.

# rpm -qa | grep dovecot dovecot12-backend-mysql-1.2.11-3.3.1.x86_64 dovecot12-backend-sqlite-1.2.11-3.3.1.x86_64 dovecot12-1.2.11-3.3.1.x86_64 dovecot12-backend-pgsql-1.2.11-3.3.1.x86_64

Here is my dovecot.conf [1].

Can anyone explain what is wrong with my configuration? It is not possible to access the shared and public mailboxes. Thunderbird and KMail don't show the shared/public namespace at all. Outlook Express shows these namespaces, but trying to access leads to a "mailbox doesn't exist" error message.

Dovecot is not logging any errors.

What's wrong?

Thanks, Andre

[1] # cat /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

protocols = imap imaps protocol imap { mail_plugins = acl imap_acl } listen = * disable_plaintext_auth = no ssl = no login_greeting = alphatest mailservice ready. mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir

namespace private { separator = / prefix = inbox = yes }

namespace shared { separator = / prefix = shared/ location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u subscriptions = no }

namespace public { separator = / prefix = pub/ location = maildir:/srv/mail/pub subscriptions = no }

mail_uid = 1002 mail_gid = 1000

protocol imap { mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/imap }

protocol pop3 { mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/pop3 } protocol managesieve { } protocol lda { mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/lda mail_plugins = acl } auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb pam { } userdb passwd { } user = root } dict { } plugin { acl = vfile acl_shared_dict = file:/var/lib/dovecot/shared-mailboxes/%u acl_anyone = allow }

-- Andre Tann