[Dovecot] Shared folder (namespace) access hanging

[Jeff Turner]

On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 08:39:20AM +0200, Rainer Frey wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 May 2006 08:07, Jeff Turner wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm using Dovecot 1.0-b8. We use a shared 'support' account for
> > incoming support mail. For security reasons we want to instead have
> > everyone with their own account, accessing a shared 'support' folder.
> > So I've configured dovecot with a public 'Support' namespace:
> >
> > default_mail_env = maildir:/imap/mailboxes/%u
> >
> > namespace private {
> >    separator = /
> >    prefix =
> >    inbox = yes
> > }
> > namespace public {
> >     separator = /
> >     location =
> >    
> > maildir:/imap/mailboxes/support:CONTROL=/imap/mailboxes/%u/shared-set
> >tings/support/control prefix = Support/
> >     hidden = no
> > }
> 
> [...]
> 
> > So I'm confused. Am I doing something stupid? Why is there a common
> > .cache file (it doesn't get created in the CONTROL dir), but not a
> > common dovecot-uidlists? Is anyone actually *using* shared folders?
> > :)
> 
> I do. I had similar problem in the beginning, but now I also specify 
> separate indexes with :INDEX=/path/with/user/component in addition to 
> CONTROL=/path. This works.

Thanks, that seems to have fixed the problems. I'll update the wiki to
suggest always setting INDEX (and CONTROL) for shared folders.


--Jeff

> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jeff
> 
> Rainer
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