[Dovecot] shared Sent and Junk folders {Scanned}

Tolga tolga at ozses.net
Fri Apr 4 09:12:46 EEST 2008



Scott Silva wrote:
> on 4-2-2008 11:51 PM Tolga spake the following:
>> Scott Silva wrote:
>>   
>>> 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.
>>>     
>> I did like you said, and now I get IMAP(tolga): open() failed with
>> subscription file /var/mail/tolga/.subscriptions: Not a directory. btw,
>> /var/mail/tolga is a file, but what I want is to have all the other
>> folders in /var/mail/folders/tolga. Should I modify it like
>> mbox:/var/mail/folders/%u/ ?
>>
>>   
> That should work.
It indeed work, thanks :)
>
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