Hey,

I actually went with the method suggested by Steffen Kaiser of creating a separate userdb because I use LDAP and I have an OU which contains all the public mailboxes and was just easier. I setup the userdb like so:

userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap-shared_mailboxes.conf.ext driver = ldap override_fields = mail=maildir:/home/vmail/Public/.%n }

Now when I send an email to office3@xxx.com I don’t get any errors and it delivers the message to the office3@xxx.com:

root@mail:~# ls /home/vmail/Public/.office3/new/ 1458427035.M781836P21781.mail.xxx.com,S=2571,W=2630 1458427705.M750112P23338.mail.xxx.com,S=2501,W=2559

But from any mail client I try I don’t seem to be able to list anything in the Public directory.

Am I missing something in the configuration?

Here is the public namespace configuration:

namespace { list = yes location = maildir:/home/vmail/Public:INDEXPVT=~/Maildir/Public prefix = Public/ separator = / subscriptions = yes type = public }

On 17 Mar 2016, at 08:35, Burckhard Schmidt <bschmidt@cms.hu-berlin.de> wrote:

hello Marti,

Am 17.03.2016 um 06:18 schrieb Marti Markov:

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First of all thanks for the reply Burckhard. When you say:

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You can use a "normal" user who has a sieve script:

Normal user that's an account with one or more email aliasses. So this "user" can receive emails like any other user. This I called "normal" user. But this ist not of interest in our case. So you don't get an "user not found".

Next you will add an appropriate email alias to the account if necessary (our accounts are cryptic).

Now you have an account/user and you can write a sieve script for that user to deliver all emails into one public folder or into different folders. Public subfolders are possible too, if you like or are able to distinguish incomming emails.

In your case it is not necessary to have an user/account "office3". This name you would only use in that sieve script with "fileinto".

Regards!

Burckhard

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what would that user be in my case? office3? Because I don’t really see how it will solve the problem of getting the error 550 user not found when making the LDAP search.

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On 10 Mar 2016, at 08:50, Burckhard Schmidt <bschmidt@cms.hu-berlin.de> wrote:

Am 09.03.2016 um 20:02 schrieb Marti Markov:

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Hi all,

This is the first time I use the dovecot mail list so I’m sorry if I forget something.

My problem is that for some reason I can get public mailboxes to work. I have setup the directory Public, the folders and the cur,tmp and new folder in them:

Public | |- .office3 | |- cur |- tmp |- new |- dovecot-acl

Here is my dovecot conf:

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namespace { list = yes location = maildir:/home/vmail/xxx.com/Public:INDEXPVT=~/Maildir/Public prefix = Public/ separator = / subscriptions = yes type = public }

You can use a "normal" user who has a sieve script: require ... any filter if necessary fileinto "Public"; discard; ...

"Public" is your prefix I have several subfolder so I use: fileinto "Public/subfolder1";

You would have /home/vmail/xxx.com/Public/subfolder1 with cur new tmp and a file "dovecot-acl" containing anyone lrs

-- Burckhard Schmidt

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