[Dovecot] shared Sent and Junk folders

[Scott Silva]

on 4-2-2008 4:01 AM Tolga spake the following:
> 
> 
> Charles Marcus wrote:
>> On 4/2/2008 3:38 AM, Tolga wrote:
>>> For some odd reason, two of my users share the same Sent and Junk 
>>> folders, therefore I keep getting errors about Sent folder reading 
>>> permissions and one user reading the other user's Junk folder. What 
>>> can I do about this odd problem?
>>
>> Do you really think anyone can even guess what might cause something 
>> like this based on the information given?
>>
>> How about some hints, like:
>>
>> dovecot version, platform, output of dovecot -n, and maybe even - gasp 
>> - some log entries given when these users are experiencing the problem...
> Dovecot version is 1.0.7, on Linux gentoo, below is dovecot -n
> 
> log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log
> info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log
> listen: [::]
> ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/server.pem
> ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/server.key
> disable_plaintext_auth: no
> login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
> login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
> mail_extra_groups: mail
> mail_location: 
> mbox:/var/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/mail/folders/%u
Here you need something like mbox:/var/mail/%u/ or mbox:/var/%u/mail/ to keep 
all the users other mailboxes separate.

> auth default:
>  passdb:
>    driver: pam
>    args: *
>  userdb:
>    driver: passwd
> 
> logs: open() failed with mbox file /var/mail/Sent: Permission denied.
> 
> Please let me know if you need anything else
> 
> 
>>
>> Sorry to sound harsh, but sometimes it just amazes me how people seem 
>> to think others will just be able to read their minds...
> Not a problem at all
> 
> Regards,
> 


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