Richard Stegman wrote:

Hello

I would like to setup a public namespace with folders under it that are accessiable by certain users. Something like this:

Projects---- | |-----03060 | |-----04579

Users should be able to move emails from their inbox to the shared folders, and all user can see the moved email.

Here is what I have done so far:

1. I installed dovecot-1.0-0 4 stable20050221.rhf3.at.i386.rpm to a Fedora core 3 machine with Postfix and procmail.
2. Tested mail server - both pop and imap work.
3. Modified dovecot conf. file with the following entry:

namespace private { separator = / prefix = inbox = yes hidden = no }

namespace public { separator = . prefix = Projects. location = maildir:/var/mail/Projects inbox = no hidden = no }

4. Restart dovecot. Test - imap and pop work.
5. Create group imapu. Add email users to group imapu
6. Create (as root) /var/mail/Projects. Change group to imapu. Change mode 770
7. Touch file dovecot-shared to /var/mail/Projects. Change group to imapu. Change mode 770
8. Make directory /var/mail/Projects/.03060. Change group to imapu. Change mode 770
9. Touch file dovecot-shared to /var/mail/Projects/.03060. Change group to imapu. Change mode to 770
10. Restart dovecot.

I start up thunderbird and the Project namespace shows up. I then subscribe to 03060 and get this error: The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Error in IMAP command UID: Invalid BODY[..] parameter: Missing '>' <10240.-1357>'.

I think this is a known issue with Thunderbird not liking the FETCH response. Have you tried adding "tb-negative-fetch" to "imap_client_workarounds" in dovecot.conf?

I think the issue is fixed in the latest dovecot-1.0-test66, and I've back-ported the fix to dovecot-1.0-stable (see my post a couple of days ago).

Also search the list archives for "error in imap command uid", e.g. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.dovecot/4452 for discussion of the issue and a partial patch.

I click ok and I can move email from the inbox to 03060. The mail shows up in 03060. No other user can then subscribe to 03060. What am I doing wrong?

I'm not sure how well shared-folders are working at the moment. See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.dovecot/5118 for another possibly relevant thread. Have you tried later versions, e.g. dovecot-1.0-test66 or a more recent dovecot-1.0-stable?

Best Wishes, Chris

--+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+- Christopher Wakelin, c.d.wakelin@reading.ac.uk IT Services Centre, The University of Reading, Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8439 Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AF, UK Fax: +44 (0)118 975 3094