[Dovecot] Initial support for shared mailboxes

[Robert Schetterer]

Timo Sirainen schrieb:
> On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 11:11 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 10:05 +0200, Robert Schetterer wrote:
>>> Timo Sirainen schrieb:
>>>> On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 09:42 +0200, Robert Schetterer wrote:
>>>>> Hi Timo, what about imap acl full implemented ( not plugin )
>>>>> is there a chance to have it in v1.2 ?
>>>> It's not in my plans, but Kolab people are probably going to need it, so
>>>> maybe they'll implement it. :)
>>>>
>>>> And what do you mean by "not plugin"? It's most likely going to be a
>>>> plugin in any case.
>>>>
>>> Sorry Timo i missposted you *g,
>>> the problem is the file based acl ( whatever plugin or not ), i dont 
>>> know any
>>> webmail etc which gives the users themselfs a chance
>>> to make their own acls, editing files i.e via ftp is
>>> very outdated, what dovecot needs is edit acls direct via the client
>>> over imap like its in cyrus, so we can use horde or squirrel webmail
>> The problem isn't really about making IMAP commands available for the
>> ACL file creation, that's pretty easy to implement. The problem is that
>> once the ACLs have been given the mailboxes should be visible to other
>> users. That's more difficult to implement.
> 
> Well, I actually started it today since it's needed for replication:
> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/6dd0c6755afe
> 
> Mailboxes can't be listed yet (and I'm not planning on implementing that
> anytime soon), but if you add the wanted mailboxes to subscriptions they
> should be usable by clients. Configuration goes like:
> 
> namespace shared {
>   separator = /
>   # %%u gets expanded to the remote user. Instead of %%u you can
>   # also use %%n and %%d.
>   prefix = shared/%%u/
>   location = Maildir:/home/%%u/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u
> }
> 
> I didn't bother testing it with ACL plugin yet, but I guess it should
> work.
> 
> And as for the IMAP ACL commands then.. Well, they shouldn't be too
> difficult to implement I think. Someone else could try to do it
> though. :)

Hi Timo if i use
%%u
%u works

i get failure

dovecot: Sep 17 01:26:03 Error: child 15148 (imap) killed with signal 6
dovecot: Sep 17 01:26:05 Panic: IMAP(robert at schetterer.com): shared 
mailbox list: Can't return path for 'users/'
dovecot: Sep 17 01:26:05 Error: IMAP(robert at schetterer.com): Raw 
backtrace: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap [0x80e9531] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/imap 
[0x80e95b2] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/imap [0x80e8f49] -> 
/usr/lib/dovecot/imap [0x809b8e1] -> 
/usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so [0xb7d9a8ae] -> 
/usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so(acl_object_init_from_name+0x1d) 
[0xb7d98e2d] -> 
/usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so(acl_backend_init+0x176) 
[0xb7d99556] -> 
/usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib01_acl_plugin.so(acl_mailbox_list_created+0xde) 
[0xb7d9cece] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap/lib20_mail_log_plugin.so 
[0xb7ef50a4] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/imap(mailbox_list_init+0x13c) 
[0x80b211c] -> /usr/lib/dovecot/imap [0x809bc17] -> 
/usr/lib/dovecot/imap(mail_storage_create+0x114) [0x80b0c74] -> 
/usr/lib/dovecot/imap(mail_namespaces_init+0x29e) [0x80ace0e] -> 
/usr/lib/dovecot/imap(main+0x3e3) [0x806f173] -> 
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0) [0xb7db7450] -> 
/usr/lib/dovecot/imap [0x805ef21]
dovecot: Sep 17 01:26:05 Error: child 15152 (imap) killed with signal 6

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Best Regards

MfG Robert Schetterer

Germany/Munich/Bavaria