[Dovecot] Multiple mailboxes per user
My users currently have mail delivered to mulitple MailDir locations
via procmail.
~/mail/inbox/ ~/mail/graph/ ~/mail/spam/
I would like all these mailboxes to be exported via dovecot IMAP and
appear as folders. However, I can't anything beyond the INBOX working.
My approach is via 'namespaces'.
My config file is changed thusly: $ sudo dovecot -n # 1.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:~/mail/inbox namespace: type: private inbox: yes namespace: type: private prefix: graph location: maildir:~/mail/graph namespace: type: private prefix: spam location: maildir:~/mail/spam auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd
I try connecting with mutt and I can see the mails in 'inbox' just
fine. I can also see (in the mutt browser) 'graph' and 'spam' just
fine too:
y:Exit c:Chdir m:Mask ?:Help 1 IMAP INBOX 2 IMAP graph. 3 IMAP spam.
However, selecting 'graph' I see:
y:Exit c:Chdir m:Mask ?:Help 1 IMAP ../
...I would have expected it to open the 'graph' MailDir mailbox and
display the mail.
I try connecting directly using 'mutt -f imaps://user@computer/graph' and I see 'Invalid mailbox name'.
telnet-ing in: $ nc localhost 143
- OK Dovecot ready. a1 login user password a1 OK Logged in. c1 list "" *
- LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX"
- LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "." "graph"
- LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "." "spam" c1 OK List completed. a100 logout
- BYE Logging out a100 OK Logout completed.
The logs only show:
Oct 13 10:44:44 machine dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<user>,
method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.1.1, lip=127.0.1.1, TLS
Oct 13 10:44:46 machine dovecot: IMAP(user): Disconnected: Logged out
Any ideas where I am going wrong? Outlook Express also lists the
'graph' and 'spam' folder but won't show their contents.
WS
- spam@wilysloth.com spam@wilysloth.com:
My users currently have mail delivered to mulitple MailDir locations via procmail.
~/mail/inbox/ ~/mail/graph/ ~/mail/spam/
Think like this:
~/mail/inbox/ ~/mail/inbox/graph/ ~/mail/inbox/spam/
I would like all these mailboxes to be exported via dovecot IMAP and
appear as folders. However, I can't anything beyond the INBOX working.
graph/ and spam/ will show up as subfolders of the users mailbox.
p@rick
My approach is via 'namespaces'.
My config file is changed thusly: $ sudo dovecot -n # 1.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:~/mail/inbox namespace: type: private inbox: yes namespace: type: private prefix: graph location: maildir:~/mail/graph namespace: type: private prefix: spam location: maildir:~/mail/spam auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd
I try connecting with mutt and I can see the mails in 'inbox' just fine. I can also see (in the mutt browser) 'graph' and 'spam' just fine too:
y:Exit c:Chdir m:Mask ?:Help 1 IMAP INBOX 2 IMAP graph. 3 IMAP spam.
However, selecting 'graph' I see:
y:Exit c:Chdir m:Mask ?:Help 1 IMAP ../
...I would have expected it to open the 'graph' MailDir mailbox and
display the mail.I try connecting directly using 'mutt -f imaps://user@computer/graph' and I see 'Invalid mailbox name'.
telnet-ing in: $ nc localhost 143
- OK Dovecot ready. a1 login user password a1 OK Logged in. c1 list "" *
- LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX"
- LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "." "graph"
- LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "." "spam" c1 OK List completed. a100 logout
- BYE Logging out a100 OK Logout completed.
The logs only show: Oct 13 10:44:44 machine dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<user>,
method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.1.1, lip=127.0.1.1, TLS Oct 13 10:44:46 machine dovecot: IMAP(user): Disconnected: Logged outAny ideas where I am going wrong? Outlook Express also lists the 'graph' and 'spam' folder but won't show their contents.
WS
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On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 04:35 -0600, spam@wilysloth.com wrote:
My users currently have mail delivered to mulitple MailDir locations
via procmail.~/mail/inbox/ ~/mail/graph/ ~/mail/spam/ .. # 1.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
Dovecot v1.0 supports only Maildir++ directory layout: http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir#maildir++
Would be easiest if you could just rename the mailboxes, or maybe symlink them.
With v1.1 you'd be able to do:
mail_location = maildir:~/mail:LAYOUT=fs
namespace: type: private prefix: graph location: maildir:~/mail/graph namespace: type: private prefix: spam location: maildir:~/mail/spam
These are pretty kludgy, but you could do:
namespace { prefix = spam. location = maildir:~/mail/spam }
And that would show up as spam.INBOX I think. Or maybe not. Namespaces weren't really meant for this kind of use.
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Patrick Ben Koetter
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spam＠wilysloth.com
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Timo Sirainen