Dear list,

I hope this is not an old issue, but I couldn't find a solution even after google'ing quite some time.

I try to migrate our institute's mail server (~200 users) from an old cyrus-based Mac installation to a new machine (NetBSD, dovecot 2.0.13). Everything went quite smoothly so far, but we are used to have "shared folders" ("public" folders in dovecot) and I simply couldn't make them to appear.

I have two separate folders for private (user) mails and for public ones (yes, I set everything to 777 for the moment to avoid file access problems) :

mailserver# pwd /var/mail mailserver# ls -al total 8 drwxrwxrwt 4 dovecot wheel 512 May 31 12:26 . drwxr-xr-x 28 root wheel 512 Mar 29 15:05 .. drwxrwxrwx 3 root mail 512 May 31 15:18 public drwxrwxrwx 4 root wheel 512 May 31 12:26 user

In the public folder there is a shared folder named "fb8":

mailserver# pwd /var/mail/public mailserver# ls -al total 8 drwxrwxrwx 3 root mail 512 May 31 15:18 . drwxrwxrwt 4 dovecot wheel 512 May 31 12:26 .. -rw-rw-rw- 1 10001 mail 0 May 31 15:14 dovecot-acl-list -rwxrwxrwx 1 root mail 0 May 31 11:06 dovecot-shared drwxrwxrwx 5 root mail 512 May 31 12:03 fb8

Now my own username (LDAP-based) is "harenber" and I try to subscribe myself to this list:

mailserver# doveadm mailbox subscribe -u harenber public.fb8 mailserver#

So a "subscriptions" file appears:

mailserver# ls -al total 8 drwxrwxrwx 3 root mail 512 May 31 15:18 . drwxrwxrwt 4 dovecot wheel 512 May 31 12:26 .. -rw-rw-rw- 1 10001 mail 0 May 31 15:14 dovecot-acl-list -rwxrwxrwx 1 root mail 0 May 31 11:06 dovecot-shared drwxrwxrwx 5 root mail 512 May 31 12:03 fb8 -rw-rw-rw- 1 10001 mail 4 May 31 15:18 subscriptions mailserver# cat subscriptions
fb8 mailserver#

(although I think this is wrong, as I have

namespace { list = children location = maildir:/var/mail/public:INDEX=~/public prefix = public. separator = . subscriptions = no type = public }

I would assume this file to appear somewhere in /var/mail/user/harenber/public... )

But I cannot access this "fb8" folder with any client. Alpine says that the public folder is empty:

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Folder-Collection <test>

                                                           [No Folders in Collection]   

and also Apple Mail sees nothing beneath "public".

Tried to speak IMAP directly shows:

01 login harenber XXXXX 01 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS ACL RIGHTS=texk] Logged in 02 namespace

• NAMESPACE (("" ".")) NIL (("public." ".")) 02 OK Namespace completed. 03 list "" *
• LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "Trash"
• LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "ALiCEnext"

[...]

• LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "sent-mail"
• LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "tier2"
• LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "trash"
• LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX"
• LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "." "public" 03 OK List completed

Maybe someone of you has a clue what I do wrong here, I'm completely lost at the moment.

Thanks for any hint and best regards,

Torsten

mailserver# doveconf -n
# 2.0.13: /usr/pkg/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: NetBSD 5.1 amd64 ffs auth_debug = yes auth_verbose = yes base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ mail_debug = yes mail_gid = 6 mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/user/%u mail_plugins = acl 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 namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = . type = private } namespace { list = children location = maildir:/var/mail/public:INDEX=%u/public prefix = public. separator = . subscriptions = no type = public } passdb { args = /usr/pkg/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { acl = vfile sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap pop3 lmtp sieve service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { group = dovecot user = dovecot } } service managesieve-login { inet_listener sieve { port = 4190 } inet_listener sieve_deprecated { port = 2000 } } ssl_cert =

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