[Dovecot] shared mailboxes using namespaces in 1.2

[Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth]

On 11/23/2009 06:28 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 17:03 +0100, Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth wrote:
>> However now that I've upgraded to 1.2.8, I cannot create subfolders
>> anymore. The server responds with "NO Invalid mailbox name:
>> test/testsub". The hierarchy separator for the namespaces is / because I
>> am mixing maildir and mbox namespaces and list=yes.
>>
>> The details:
>> I am using a post-login script (attached) that detects all subfolders of
>> /var/spool/mail/Shared for which the current user has at least read
>> access. For every subfolder, it creates a separate namespace with the
>> prefix Shared/<mailboxname>. The shared mailbox trees are in maildir format.
> 
> Are you setting the hierarchy separator in environment for the other
> created namespaces? It sounds like you aren't. Looking at logs with
> mail_debug=yes would verify.

Yes, I am. I am using 
      $ENV{"NAMESPACE_${nr}_SEP"}= "/";
... in the post-login script.

The debug log says:
-------------------- 8< --------------------
Nov 23 19:10:15 strike dovecot: IMAP(leo): Namespace: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes
Nov 23 19:10:15 strike dovecot: IMAP(leo): mbox: data=~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/leo
Nov 23 19:10:15 strike dovecot: IMAP(leo): fs: root=/home/leo/mail, index=, control=, inbox=/var/mail/leo
Nov 23 19:10:15 strike dovecot: IMAP(leo): Namespace: type=shared, prefix=Shared/spamrep/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=no
Nov 23 19:10:15 strike dovecot: IMAP(leo): maildir: data=/var/spool/mail/Shared/spamrep:CONTROL=~/Maildir/control/Shared/spamrep:INDEX=~/Maildir/index/Share
d/spamrep
Nov 23 19:10:15 strike dovecot: IMAP(leo): maildir++: root=/var/spool/mail/Shared/spamrep, index=/home/leo/Maildir/index/Shared/spamrep, control=/home/leo/Maildir/control/Shared/spamrep, inbox=
-------------------- 8< --------------------

Trying to create Shared/spamrep/test/testsub fails for example...

Cheers,
--leo
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