inbox parameter is ignored within location config for public namespaces?

[Dieter Knopf]

Ohh :-(

Is there really no way with a symlink or something like that? Not sure
if i can configure the root path in clients like Thunderbird...

2014-11-14 11:12 GMT+01:00 Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de>:
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> On Fri, 14 Nov 2014, Dieter Knopf wrote:
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>> Debug logfile:
>> dovecot: imap(m.user at foo.eu): Debug: Namespace : type=public,
>> prefix=BOS/, sep=/, inbox=no, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes
>>
>> location=maildir:/home/vmail/foo.eu/bos/MAILDIR:INBOX=/home/vmail/foo.eu/bos/MAILDIR/.INBOX:INDEX=/home/vmail/foo.eu/bos/S_INDEX:INDEXPVT=/home/vmail/foo.eu/bos/S_INDEXPVT/m.user at foo.eu
>> dovecot: imap(m.user at foo.eu): Debug: maildir++:
>> root=/home/vmail/foo.eu/bos/MAILDIR,
>> index=/home/vmail/foo.eu/bos/S_INDEX,
>> indexpvt=/home/vmail/foo.eu/bos/S_INDEXPVT/m.user at foo.eu, control=,
>> inbox=/home/vmail/foo.eu/bos/MAILDIR/.INBOX, alt=
>> dovecot: imap(m.user at foo.eu): Debug: acl: initializing backend with data:
>> vfile
>> dovecot: imap(m.user at foo.eu): Debug: acl: acl username = m.user at foo.eu
>> dovecot: imap(m.user at foo.eu): Debug: acl: owner = 0
>> dovecot: imap(m.user at foo.eu): Debug: acl vfile: Global ACL directory:
>> (none)
>>
>> Everything looks fine, not sure why INBOX is not working correctly :-(
>
>
> I'm sort of thinking that each account has just one INBOX, which is the one
> from the namespace with inbox=yes.
> Also, IMHO, public Maildir's never have the "root" useable, it is always
> "grey" regardless of the INBOX-setting. I think, I've read it several times
> on this list. You can see the public INBOX as sub-folder, but cannot "merge"
> it as root.
>
>
>> 2014-11-09 18:24 GMT+01:00 Dieter Knopf <dieterknopf at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> i already asked a similiar question some month ago but still have no
>>> fix for my problem :-(
>>>
>>> This is my global location option in 10-mail.conf:
>>> mail_location =
>>>
>>> maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n/MAILDIR:INBOX=/home/vmail/%d/%n/MAILDIR/.INBOX:INDEX=/home/vmail/%d/%n/INDEX/
>>>
>>> This works fine, until i'm using a public namespace.
>>>
>>> The following namespace is a normal user too, every mail to bos at foo.eu
>>> is stored in /home/vmail/foo.eu/bos/MAILDIR (within the INBOX-folder)
>>> and this directory is used for the location of the namespace.
>>>
>>> Config:
>>> namespace {
>>>   type = public
>>>   separator = /
>>>   prefix = BOS/
>>>   location =
>>> maildir:/home/vmail/foo.eu/bos/MAILDIR:INBOX=/home/vmail/foo.eu/bos/MAILDIR/.INBOX:INDEX=/home/vmail/foo.eu/bos/S_INDEX:INDEXPVT=/home/vmail/foo.eu/bos/S_INDEXPVT/%u
>>>   subscriptions = yes
>>> }
>>>
>>> The namespace itself works fine and without a problem, but the INBOX
>>> folder is the main problem. Mail users agents like Thunderbird now
>>> shows a folder structure like:
>>>
>>> BOS (grey, not useable)
>>> - INBOX (the .INBOX folder)
>>> - Other folder 1
>>> - Other folder 2
>>> - Other folder 3
>>>
>>> The INBOX-config works fine for every single user, but it don't work
>>> on namespaces? Is this a bug?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Dieter
>>
>>
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> - -- Steffen Kaiser
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