[Dovecot] can not see public mailbox

[Timo Sirainen]

On 11.2.2014, at 5.43, David Mehler <dave.mehler at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm running Dovecot2 and trying to set up public mailboxes. I've got a
> virtual user system set up with postfix and using MySQL
> authentication. I'm wanting to create several public mailboxes for
> shared messages. I've followed the wiki and have the public folder
> created. I've got a folder /home/vmail/public/public1 public1 being
> the maildir of the public mailbox.
> 
> I can see in my folder list of my webmail client the root public
> folder but I can't change in to it and I can not see the public1
> public mailbox.

You can use "doveadm acl debug" command to try to figure out why a user can't see a shared mailbox. For example:

doveadm acl debug -u user at domain Public/foo

> # 2.1.16: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

I don't remember how good the acl debug command is in v2.1, it's at least a bit better in v2.2.