[Dovecot] How to have a "public" readonly folder?

[Villalovos, John L]

dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org <> wrote:
> I have my email users who are using dovecot-1.0.beta2.

I just upgraded to dovecot-1.0.beta3.  No change.

> I also have setup a dummy account to get the Linux Kernel Mailing
> List (LKML) traffic. 
> 
> I would like to have it so that my IMAP users (maybe POP3 but
> don't need
> that) be able to read the LKML mailing list from that email account.
> 
> I can put the email into an mbox or a maildir for the LKML mail.
> 
> I have played around with the namespace and public option and I can't
> get it to work :( 
> 
> I tried this:
> 
> namespace public {
>     separator = /
>     prefix = Public/
>     location = maildir:/home/virtemail/lkml/
> }
> 
> In my email client (Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5), I am unable to view the
> Public folder.  If I select subscribe, I can see the Public folder
> but it is grayed out. 

If I do a symbolic link it works, in the sense that I can know subscribe
to the folder.  I created the file 'dovecot-shared' in the shared folder
(I also updated the Wiki to make the procedure a little bit clearer).  I
couldn't seem to figure out a good way to make it read only though.

So I still can't seem to get the namespace method working.

I also tried pointing the location at an mbox and that did not work.

In the client I can see the Public folder listed but it is grayed out
and won't let me subscribe.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
John