[Dovecot] dovecot 1.2 plugin virtual and shared namespace with thunderbird / seems solved

Robert Schetterer robert at schetterer.org
Mon May 18 02:31:43 EEST 2009


Hi Timo ,

Timo Sirainen schrieb:
> On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 10:00 +0200, Robert Schetterer wrote:
>>> Hi Timo,
>>> disabling virtual plugin settings makes
>>> dovecot 1.2 work as expected again, subfolders of inbox are shown again
>>> as well as shared mailbox namespaces
>>> virtual plugin seems to me broken in some way
> 
> What do you here mean "disabling virtual plugin"? Did you also change
> all the namespace configuration? Because the issue seems to be that
> there are no hidden=no namespace, not really anything to do with virtual
> plugin itself.

as it looks right now, all trouble was based
on the bug in the wiki
as i couldnt get it to work like described in the wiki
i just tested options without virtual plugin, and reenabled "normal"
namespaces for testing, as i couldnt thought of a wiki bug, i speculated
to a bug in the virtual plugin

> 
>> namespace private {
>>   separator = /
>>   prefix = ""
>>   location =
>> maildir:/usr/local/virtual/%d/%u/:CONTROL=/usr/local/virtual/%d/%u/:INDEX=/usr/local/virtual/%d/%u/:INBOX=/usr/local/virtual/%d/%u/
>>   list = yes
>>
>> hidden = no <<<<<this is what i have changed now
> ..
>> in a few tests now the setup with virtual plugin
>> works now like desired with Thunderbird
>> ( havent tested aggressive all features yet i.e with other plugins
>> acl,autocreate ...)
>>
>> i am not clear if the wiki should changed here, or exactly why it is
>> working now, 
> 
> If you have hidden=yes in all private namespaces, then Dovecot's
> NAMESPACE reply doesn't show any namespaces. Apparently TB looks at that
> and then doesn't show anything.
> 

> It was anyway a bug in wiki, I've fixed it now.

Ok i just thought so , like it was a bug in the wiki

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Best Regards

MfG Robert Schetterer

Germany/Munich/Bavaria


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