I've configured a namespace like this:

namespace avisos { type = public list = yes location = maildir:/var/mail.avisos:INDEXPVT=~/Maildir/avisos subscriptions = yes prefix = "AVISOS." mailbox DIVULGA { auto = subscribe } }

This is the namespace representation in filesystem:

root@imap:~# ls -lha /var/mail.avisos/ total 44K drwxr-xr-x 7 vmail mail 4,0K Set 9 18:21 . drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4,0K Set 9 17:08 .. drwxr-xr-x 5 vmail mail 4,0K Set 9 16:49 .DIVULGA -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17 Set 9 18:21 dovecot-acl -rw-r--r-- 1 vmail mail 0 Set 9 18:11 dovecot-acl-list -rw-r--r-- 1 vmail mail 360 Set 9 18:11 dovecot.mailbox.log -rw-r--r-- 1 vmail mail 8 Set 9 18:02 dovecot-uidvalidity -r--r--r-- 1 vmail mail 0 Set 9 14:57 dovecot-uidvalidity.540f3f88 -rw-r--r-- 1 vmail mail 249 Set 9 18:11 subscriptions

This is the content of dovecot-acl file located at namespace's root level:

root@imap:~# cat /var/mail.avisos/dovecot-acl authenticated rs

After reload dovecot service, it trows this error message in log:

Sep 9 18:14:13 imap dovecot: imap(user@mydomain): Error: Failed to autocreate mailbox AVISOS.DIVULGA: Permission denied

So, I've changed the dovecot-acl file to this one and the problem was solved.

root@imap:~# cat /var/mail.avisos/dovecot-acl authenticated rsk

But that change created another problem: dovecot-acl file is copied into AVISOS.DIVULGA. So, the user can create a maildir inside it. This behaviour is bad because "invalid" maildirs are created under the filesystem. My intention is to don't permit the user to create any maildir inside any location of that namespace. But, I want to make possible to the administrator to edit the dovecot.conf, insert a new mailbox into namespace avisos and reload dovecot service to create new maildirs automatically.

How can I solve this problem?

-- Att. Bruno Galindro da Costa