[Dovecot] sharing of non-INBOX namespaces? Re: imapc and imap_acl

[Lutz Preßler]

On Do, 15 Sep 2011, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 12:46 +0200, Lutz Preßler wrote:
> > I have a more general problem now: shared mailboxes from any "non-INBOX"
> > namespace are not available to other users. That's not only with virtual or
> > imapc namespaces, but also tested with two Maildir ones:
> 
> > namespace others {
> >   type = shared
> >   separator = .
> >   prefix = INBOX.shared.%%u.
> >   location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u
> 
> Right, because here you have configured a shared namespace for
> ~/Maildir.
Uh, oh... of course. Stupid to expect it to work as your proposal for
future extension already... but that would be the most flexible way,
please implement :-).

> If you want to access also ~/Maildir2, you'd need to create a
> second shared namespace for it.
Maybe I mess something up the second time today - but I cannot get
it to work:

namespace others {
  type = shared
  separator = .
  prefix = INBOX.shared.%%u.
  location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u
  subscriptions = no
  list = children
}

namespace otherssecond {
  type = shared
  separator = .
  prefix = INBOX.shared2.%%u.
  location = maildir:%%h/Maildir2:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared2/%%u
  subscriptions = no
  list = children
}


As testuser:
0 select INBOX.shared2.user1.box
0 NO Mailbox doesn't exist: shared2.user1.box

with log:
Sep 15 13:28:51 host dovecot: imap(17320, testuser): Debug: acl vfile: file /etc/dovecot/global-acls/INBOX.shared2.user1.box not found
Sep 15 13:28:51 host dovecot: imap(17320, testuser): Debug: acl vfile: file /home/testuser/Maildir/.shared2.user1.box/dovecot-acl not found

like the otherssecond namespace beeing ignored (yes, I've restarted dovecot).

First I tried in otherssecond
  prefix = INBOX.shared.%%u.second.
  location = maildir:%%h/Maildir2:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u/second
- don't know if this is even supposed to work, but both variants do not.

Lutz