Dear All, I am trying to use Public Folder feature of dovecot but having some confusion with the configuration part as well as understanding the same.

Here is output of doveconf -n which i think required to help me -

mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir

namespace { inbox = yes location = prefix = separator = . type = private } namespace { list = children location = maildir:/var/mail/public prefix = Public. separator = . subscriptions = no type = public }

plugin { acl = vfile:/usr/local/dovecot/dovecot-acl/acl }

after making this configuration i also created subfolder inside /var/mail/public

which looks like following:-

mail1:~# less /var/mail/public/ dovecot-acl-list .Public/ mail1:~# less /var/mail/public/.Public/Maildir/ cur/ new/ tmp/

I have changed default permission to [ chown -R vmail:vmail /var/mail ] on base public folder.

Now I am able to see the public folder from webmail as well as from thunderbird but no display for .Public folder.

I am expecting that .Public folder will be visible to all but no one will be allowed to delete and make any change in that folder, I am also using global ACL in my configuration.

Please let me know what i am doing wrong because not getting any error in log, Correct me if i am understanding wrong.

Thanks