On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, c-schettner wrote:

Hi all, this is my last try to get help before giving up. I red the dovecot-wiki several times, but it doesn´t work. I don´t know what´s wrong. If I open thunderbird I see the folder "public" but I cannot subscribe it. I have dovecot 1.0.10. Yes it´s a little bit old but it is the latest version under debian packages. Please see my configuration below.

You cannot subscribe to the root folder of a namespace. I'm not entirely sure *why* this is the case (it seems to be generally desired, and it's a common source of confusion), but it's the way Dovecot's set up (Someone correct me if that's wrong in the 1.1 series).

You should be able to subscribe to any subfolders, though. e.g. based on the permissions in your example:

mkdir -p /home/vmail/public/.folder/{new,tmp,cur} touch /home/vmail/public/.folder/dovecot-shared chown -R vmail:vmail /home/vmail/public/.folder find /home/vmail/public/.folder -type d -exec chmod 700 '{}' \; chmod 644 /home/vmail/public/.folder/dovecot-shared

Then you should be able to subscribe to public/folder

I'm not sure how ACL's play into this. The lack of hierarchical ACL's prevented them from being useful for my situation, but I had the benefit of system users (so I could put them in groups and control access that way).

Best, Ben

here the content of: /etc/dovecot-acl/public

user=user1@domain1.de rwl

here my /home/vmail

mail:/home/vmail# ls -l insgesamt 32 drwx------ 6 vmail vmail 4096 2008-02-22 09:43 domain1.de drwx------ 4 vmail vmail 4096 2008-02-15 16:56 domain2.de -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 7762 2008-02-22 13:37 dovecot-deliver.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 160 2008-02-22 09:40 globalsieverc -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 204 2008-02-22 09:40 globalsievercc drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 2008-02-22 13:16 public drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4096 2008-02-18 09:08 web.de

here a part of my dovecot.conf:

---

mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n

namespace public { separator = / prefix = public/ location = maildir:/home/vmail/public hidden = no }

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

mail_extra_groups = mail #umask = 0077

protocol imap {

mail_plugins = acl }

plugin { #quota = maildir acl = vfile:/etc/dovecot-acls #trash = /etc/dovecot-trash.conf }

here the shared folder:

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mail:/home/vmail/public# ls -l insgesamt 12 drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2008-02-22 12:14 cur -rw-r--r-- 1 vmail vmail 0 2008-02-22 13:16 dovecot-shared drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2008-02-22 12:14 new drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2008-02-22 12:14 tmp mail:/home/vmail/public#

Thanks, Christian.