[Dovecot] Cannot subscribe to shared folders

[Lukas Haase]

Am 14.02.2011 14:54, schrieb Lukas Haase:
> Hi,
>
> I am unable to subscribe to shared folders with Thunderbird although
> everything seems to be correct (dovecot 1.2).
>
> What does not work? I click "Subscribe..." in Thunderbird. The shared
> mailboxes are listed, all with [ ] (no checkbox). Therefore I mark them
> [x], click "subscribe" and "OK". However, the folders do not appear in
> the folder tree. Furthermore, when I again click "Subscribe..." the
> folders do NOT have the mark [x] any more. This happens on different
> computers with *new* profiles.
>
> My configuration is the following (maybe that is the problem?!):
>
> namespace private {
>   separator = .
>   prefix =.
>   inbox = no
>   list = no
>   hidden = yes
>   location = maildir:~/Maildir-root
>   subscriptions = yes
> }
>
> namespace private {
>   separator = .
>   prefix = INBOX.
>   inbox = yes
>   subscriptions = yes
> }
>
> namespace public {
>   separator = .
>   prefix = Shared.
>   location = maildir:/var/mail/shared:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared:LAYOUT=fs
>   subscriptions = no
> }
> [...]

In this case the subscriptions for Shared. are saved in 
~/Maildir-root/subscriptions.

However, may be that this does NOT work in practice?

It works as soon as I set "subscriptions = yes" in the public namespace :-(

However, then the subscriptions are saved in the shared folder and the 
users overwrite them themselves :-/

Regards,
  Luke