[Dovecot] shared mailboxes in 1.2 question

[Robert Schetterer]

Sascha Wilde schrieb:
> Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> writes:
>> On Oct 6, 2008, at 7:24 PM, Robert Schetterer wrote:
>>> users after imap search, otherwise you always need some admin (
>>> perhaps
>>> with shell permissions ) for editing subcriptions and acls which not
>> Actually the SUBSCRIBE IMAP command is enough to make the mailboxes
>> visible, no admin/shell access needed.
> 
> This doesn't work for me.
> 
> Actually the whole new shared namespaces feature doesn't work as
> expected for me.  Using this namespace configuration:
> 
> namespace shared {
>   separator = /
>   # %%u gets expanded to the remote user. Instead of %%u you can
>   # also use %%n and %%d.
>   prefix = users/%%u/
>   location = Maildir:/kolab/var/dovecot/spool/%%u/maildir:INDEX=/kolab/var/dovecot/spool/%u/maildir/shared_idx
>   #location = Maildir:/kolab/var/dovecot/spool/%%u/maildir
>   subscriptions = no
> }
> 
> I get errors when using list:
> 
> l002 list "" "*"
> * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" "INBOX"
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX/Calendar"
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX/Contacts"
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX/Journal"
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX/Notes"
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX/Tasks"
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX/bla"
> l002 NO Unknown internal list error
> 
> And cant subscribe or select an existing mailbox of another user:
> 
> s001 subscribe "users/1 at example.com/INBOX/blablabla"
> s001 NO Invalid mailbox name: users/1 at example.com/INBOX/blablabla
> 
> FWIW referencing an non existent mailbox causes an different error:
> 
> s002 subscribe "users/1 at example.com/blablabla"
> s002 NO [TRYCREATE] Mailbox doesn't exist: users/1 at example.com/blablabla
> 
> s102 select users/1 at example.com/INBOX/blablabla
> * OK [CLOSED]
> s102 NO Invalid mailbox name
> 
>> And IMAP ACL commands are (at least partially) already implemented by
>> Kolab people.
> 
> Yes, look at http://hg.intevation.de/kolab/dovecot-1.2_acl-branch as
> announced...  ;-)
> 
> cheers
> sascha

Hi Sascha,
why you need an extra branch for that ?
why not just code into dovecot directly
or is it ment as temp split and later merge ?

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MfG Robert Schetterer

Germany/Munich/Bavaria