On 3.3.2012, at 22.08, Tom Fernandes wrote:

I would like to have an address info@example.com whose mails are stored in a public folder. .. From what I understand it's a good idea to have a separate location for home and for mail_location.

For my normal accounts I have: home = /var/vmail/<user> mail_location = ~/Maildir

mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir

to unnecessary avoid autodetection.

Is there a way to have the same for public folders? This are my current settings:

namespace public { separator = / prefix = public/ location = maildir:/var/vmail/public subscriptions = no }

That's ok.

user_attrs = homeDirectory=home=/var/vmail/%$, =mail=maildir:~/Maildir

The "mail" isn't necessary here, since it's already globally set.

The LDAP-homeDirectory-attribute for info@example.com is "public/.info"

That's not going to work too well.

Like this an incoming mail is stored below /var/vmail/public/.info/Maildir which is good. The MUA seems to read to read from /var/vmail/public/.info though.

How can I make the MUA read from /var/vmail/public/.info/Maildir instead?

You can't.

And in case this works - is it possible to have only certain users modify the sieve-rule for this public folder or do I definitely need a passdb-entry for info@example.com? Modifying scripts via commandline is not an option...

The way I did it was to make info@, sales@ and others aliases to "company" user, which is a rather regular user (except can't actually log in). For this "company" user I've a Sieve script that puts the mails into the proper mailbox, e.g. fileinto "public/info".