Hello,

I have an account (called awesome) that does not have access to some public shared folders. I can use this account from Mozilla Thunderbird, but I cannot use it from Outlook. I opened /var/log/maillog. When I try to list all folders, I get this in the log:

Dec 28 09:57:38 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): opendir(/var/mail/public) failed: Permission denied

However, outlook displays three folders: Inbox, Public and Trash. It says "One or more problems occured downloading your list of folder from your account." That is fine, except that not all folders are listed. (There are others: "Contact", "Calendar" and "ShopzeusArchive".)

Then I subscribe to "Inbox" and "Trash". I DO NOT subscribe to "Public", because the account has no access to "Public". Then I click on "Inbox" (inside outlook) and I get this very long text:

Dec 28 09:57:54 designaproduct dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<awesome>, method=PLAIN, rip=62.112.202.90, lip=195.228.74.135, TLS Dec 28 09:57:54 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): Effective uid=1029, gid=1003 Dec 28 09:57:54 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): Namespace: type=private, prefix=#mbox/, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=yes, subscriptions=no Dec 28 09:57:54 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): mbox: data=/home/awesome/:INBOX=/var/mail/awesome Dec 28 09:57:54 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): mbox: root=/home/awesome, index=/home/awesome, inbox=/var/mail/awesome Dec 28 09:57:54 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): Namespace: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, subscriptions=no Dec 28 09:57:54 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): maildir: data=/home/awesome/Maildir Dec 28 09:57:54 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): maildir: root=/home/awesome/Maildir, index=/home/awesome/Maildir, control=, inbox= Dec 28 09:57:54 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): Namespace: type=public, prefix=Public/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, subscriptions=no Dec 28 09:57:54 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): maildir: data=/var/mail/public:CONTROL=/home/awesome/Maildir/public/control Dec 28 09:57:54 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): maildir: root=/var/mail/public, index=/var/mail/public, control=/home/awesome/Maildir/public/control, inbox= Dec 28 09:57:54 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): lstat(/var/mail/public/cur) failed: Permission denied Dec 28 09:57:54 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): Sending log messages too fast, throttling.. Dec 28 09:57:54 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): Namespace: type=public, prefix=Calendars/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, subscriptions=no Dec 28 09:57:55 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): maildir: data=/var/mail/calendars:CONTROL=/home/awesome/Maildir/calendars/control Dec 28 09:57:55 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): maildir: root=/var/mail/calendars, index=/var/mail/calendars, control=/home/awesome/Maildir/calendars/control, inbox= Dec 28 09:57:55 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): lstat(/var/mail/calendars/cur) failed: Permission denied Dec 28 09:57:55 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): Namespace: type=public, prefix=Contacts/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, subscriptions=no Dec 28 09:57:55 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): maildir: data=/var/mail/contacts:CONTROL=/home/awesome/Maildir/contacts/control Dec 28 09:57:55 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): maildir: root=/var/mail/contacts, index=/var/mail/contacts, control=/home/awesome/Maildir/contacts/control, inbox= Dec 28 09:57:55 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): lstat(/var/mail/contacts/cur) failed: Permission denied Dec 28 09:57:55 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): Namespace: type=public, prefix=ShopzeusArchive/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, subscriptions=no Dec 28 09:57:55 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): maildir: data=/var/mail/shopzeusarchive:CONTROL=/home/awesome/Maildir/shopzeusarchive/control Dec 28 09:57:55 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): maildir: root=/var/mail/shopzeusarchive, index=/var/mail/shopzeusarchive, control=/home/awesome/Maildir/shopzeusarchive/control, inbox= Dec 28 09:57:55 designaproduct dovecot: IMAP(awesome): lstat(/var/mail/shopzeusarchive/cur) failed: Permission denied

It is very strange. Why outlook wants to open these folders? I only clicked on "Inbox", it should only open "Inbox", am I right? Outlook says "Could not select 'Inbox' on the IMAP server. You might try refreshing your folders list to synchronize with the IMAP server." But this is a lie. It tried to open many other folders, not just "INBOX".

I think that my dovecot configuration is okay. I have different public and private folders. Some users can access all of them, others cannot. Using different groups of users, I can distribute permissions without problems. But I cannot make dovecot "hide" shared folders. Nor can I force all of my users to use Thunderbird. So how can I make outlook working?

Thanks,

Laszlo