[Dovecot] Global ACL configuration problems: mailboxes not visible , set ACLs not honoured

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 13:48 +0200, Andreas Ntaflos wrote:
> It seems that ACL files such as "/etc/dovecot/acls/Backup.received" 
> or "/etc/dovecot/acls/Backup.sent" are read, but when accessing the 
> actual mailbox Dovecot looks for a file "/etc/dovecot/acls/received" or
> "/etc/dovecot/acls/sent". I.e. the mailbox names *without* the namespace 
> prefix. This can't be the desired behaviour, can it? 

No, but I don't think it's a good idea to change the behavior anymore
since existing installations could depend on it. I added this fix to
v2.0 code tree.

> The Public namespace however doesn't seem to be given any consideration 
> at all by Dovecot. I can see the namespace root ("Public") in the 
> folder subscription list, but nothing beneath it. Even when I apply 
> the "fix" described in the previous paragraphs I still can't see any of 
> the public folders. The log file doesn't show anything about this 
> either.

Are you using "owner" rights in there? Public mailboxes don't have an
owner. "authenticated" is probably what you mean there.
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