Virtual Mailboxes

dmiller at amfes.com dmiller at amfes.com
Mon Jun 22 17:31:57 UTC 2015


Any ideas on what I need to check or should post to help find the 
problem?

-- 
Daniel


On 2015-06-20 14:50, dmiller at amfes.com wrote:
> The first bonehead maneuver seems to be:
>   location = virtual:/var/mail/%%d/%%n/mdbox/virtual
> I'm thinking it should be:
>   location = virtual:/var/mail/%%d/%%n/mdbox/mailboxes/virtual
> 
> But...it didn't seem to make a difference.  And if I have the
> "virtual" folder tree under a location other than
> "/var/mail/domain/user/mdbox/mailboxes" no names appear - so I think I
> have the files in the right place.  Any ideas?
> 
> --
> Daniel
> 
> 
> On 2015-06-20 14:34, dmiller at amfes.com wrote:
>> 
>> Having some trouble with my first attempt at virtual mailboxes. I've
>> enabled the plugin in 10-mail.conf, added a virtual namespace, and
>> created the dovecot-virtual files in the folders.
>> 
>> I see the folder names in the list when I refresh the folders
>> available for subscription - but the folders cannot be subscribed to
>> and I can't view their contents. What obvious mistake did I make?
>> 
>> doveconf -n:
>> auth_cache_size = 4 k
>> auth_mechanisms = plain login
>> default_login_user = nobody
>> default_vsz_limit = 1 G
>> dict {
>>  acl = mysql:/usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-sql.conf.ext
>> }
>> disable_plaintext_auth = no
>> listen = *
>> mail_attachment_dir = /var/mail/attachments
>> mail_plugins = fts fts_solr acl zlib virtual
>> mail_shared_explicit_inbox = yes
>> managesieve_notify_capability = mailto
>> managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope
>> encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric
>> relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify
>> environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate
>> mdbox_rotate_interval = 1 days
>> mdbox_rotate_size = 32 M
>> namespace {
>>  hidden = no
>>  inbox = yes
>>  list = yes
>>  location =
>>  prefix =
>>  separator = /
>>  subscriptions = yes
>>  type = private
>> }
>> namespace {
>>  list = children
>>  location = mdbox:/var/mail/%%d/%%n/mdbox
>>  prefix = shared/%%n/
>>  separator = /
>>  subscriptions = no
>>  type = shared
>> }
>> namespace {
>>  location = virtual:/var/mail/%%d/%%n/mdbox/virtual
>>  prefix = virtual/
>>  separator = /
>> }
>> passdb {
>>  args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf
>>  driver = ldap
>> }
>> plugin {
>>  acl = vfile:/usr/local/etc/dovecot/global-acls:cache_secs=300
>>  acl_shared_dict = proxy::acl
>>  fts = solr
>>  fts_autoindex = yes
>>  fts_solr = break-imap-search url=http://solr.amfes.lan:8983/solr/
>>  sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve
>>  sieve_dir = ~/sieve
>> }
>> protocols = imap lmtp sieve
>> service auth {
>>  unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
>>  group = postfix
>>  mode = 0660
>>  user = postfix
>>  }
>>  unix_listener auth-userdb {
>>  group = mail
>>  mode = 0600
>>  user = vmail
>>  }
>> }
>> service dict {
>>  unix_listener dict {
>>  group = mail
>>  mode = 0660
>>  user = vmail
>>  }
>> }
>> service imap-login {
>>  process_limit = 200
>>  process_min_avail = 10
>>  service_count = 1
>> }
>> service lmtp {
>>  process_min_avail = 5
>>  unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp {
>>  group = mail
>>  mode = 0666
>>  user = vmail
>>  }
>> }
>> service managesieve-login {
>>  inet_listener sieve {
>>  port = 4190
>>  }
>>  inet_listener sieve_deprecated {
>>  port = 2000
>>  }
>>  process_min_avail = 0
>>  service_count = 1
>> }
>> ssl_cert = </usr/local/etc/dovecot/ssl/certs/mail.amfes.com.crt
>> ssl_key = </usr/local/etc/dovecot/ssl/private/mail.amfes.com.key
>> userdb {
>>  driver = prefetch
>> }
>> userdb {
>>  args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf
>>  driver = ldap
>> }
>> verbose_proctitle = yes
>> protocol lmtp {
>>  mail_plugins = fts fts_solr acl zlib virtual sieve
>> }
>> protocol lda {
>>  mail_plugins = fts fts_solr acl zlib virtual sieve
>> }
>> protocol imap {
>>  imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep
>>  imap_idle_notify_interval = 29 mins
>>  mail_max_userip_connections = 50
>>  mail_plugins = fts fts_solr acl zlib virtual imap_acl
>> }
>> local 192.168.0.2 {
>>  protocol imap {
>>  ssl_cert = </usr/local/etc/dovecot/ssl/certs/mail.amfes.com.crt
>>  ssl_key = </usr/local/etc/dovecot/ssl/private/mail.amfes.com.key
>>  }
>> }
>> 
>> Given my mail storage location of /var/mail/%%d/%%n, I have created:
>> /var/mail/mydomain/myname/virtual/newfolder
>> 
>> and within that folder created a dovecot-virtual. I created a few like
>> this from the wiki samples - the folder names are visible but no
>> contents.
>> 
>> --
>> Daniel


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