[Dovecot] Shared folder

[Timo Sirainen]

On 19.7.2007, at 12.16, Sergey A. Kobzar wrote:

> # ls -Rl /home/mail/public/
> /home/mail/public/:
> total 0
> drw-rw---- 5 mail mail 184 Jul 19 10:08 Harm
> drw-rw---- 5 mail mail 184 Jul 19 10:08 Spam
> -rw-rw---- 1 mail mail   0 Jul 19 09:55 dovecot-shared
> -rw-rw---- 1 mail mail   0 Jul 19 09:55 subscriptions

What about /home/mail/public, or /home/mail?

> /home/mail/public/Harm:
> /home/mail/public/Spam:

These are invisible to Dovecot. They need to begin with a dot.

> total 0
> drw-rw---- 2 mail mail 48 Jul 19 10:07 cur
> -rw-rw---- 1 mail mail  0 Jul 19 10:00 dovecot-shared
> drw-rw---- 2 mail mail 48 Jul 19 10:07 new
> -rw-rw---- 1 mail mail  0 Jul 19 10:08 subscriptions
> drw-rw---- 2 mail mail 48 Jul 19 10:07 tmp

The only subscriptions file should be in /home/mail/public.

> When I try connect to the server by Outlook, I get error:
>
> Permission denied

I guess it didn't have access to /home/mail/public. But you shouldn't  
rely on Outlook for your error reporting, who knows what it did to  
get that error message. If there's nothing in Dovecot's logs, try  
manually instead:

1 login user pass
2 list "" *
3 select Public/Spam
3 subscribe Public/Spam

Where does it fail?
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