problem with a public folder

[Christian Kivalo]

On April 25, 2020 2:35:20 AM GMT+02:00, David Mehler <dave.mehler at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm trying to set up a public folder called TestFolder. I'm getting
>this error:
>
>#doveadm acl get -A "Public/TestFolder"
>doveadm(username at example.com): Error: Can't open mailbox
>Public/TestFolder: Mailbox doesn't exist: Public/TestFolder
>Username ID Global Rights

Have you enabled debug log and what does it show when you run this command?

># ls -ld /var/vmail/public
>drwx------ 4 vmail vmail 512 Apr 15 23:17 public/
>
># ls -ld public/.TestFolder
>drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 512 Apr 15 23:20 .TestFolder/
>
>My goal is a public namespace under which I have several folders for
>internal communications that users can access, TestFolder being an
>example.
>
>Suggestions welcome.
>Thanks.
>Dave.
>
>#doveconf -n
># 2.3.10 (0da0eff44): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
># Pigeonhole version 0.5.10 (bf8ef1c2)
># OS: FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE-p3 amd64
># Hostname: mail.example.com
>auth_cache_size = 10 M
>auth_default_realm = example.com
>auth_mechanisms = plain login
>auth_realms = example.com
>dict {
>  lastlogin = mysql:/usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-last-login.conf
>}
>first_valid_gid = 2100
>first_valid_uid = 2100
>hostname = mail.example.com
>imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep
>tb-lsub-flags
>imap_idle_notify_interval = 1 mins
>last_valid_gid = 2100
>last_valid_uid = 2100
>lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes
>lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes
>lda_original_recipient_header = X-Original-To
>listen = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>lmtp_rcpt_check_quota = yes
>log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S "
>mail_access_groups = vmail
>mail_fsync = never
>mail_gid = vmail
>mail_home = /var/vmail/mailboxes/%d/%n
>mail_location = dbox:~/mail
>mail_plugins = acl fts fts_lucene mail_log notify quota trash virtual
>welcome zlib mail_crypt
>mail_privileged_group = vmail
>mail_server_admin = mailto:postmaster at example.com
>mail_uid = vmail
>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 mime foreverypart
>extracttext spamtest spamtestplus virustest editheader imapflags
>notify imapsieve vnd.dovecot.imapsieve
>namespace {
>location =
>sdbox:/var/vmail/public/:CONTROL=~/mail/public:INDEX=~/mail/public:INDEXPVT=~/mail/public
>  prefix = Public/
>  separator = /
>  subscriptions = yes
>  type = public
>}
>namespace {
>  hidden = no
>  list = yes
>location =
>maildir:/var/vmail/shared/office/.Maildir:CONTROL=~/.Maildir/control/office:INDEX=~/.Maildir/index/office
>  prefix = shared/%%u/
>  separator = /
>  subscriptions = yes
>  type = shared
>}
>namespace inbox {
>  inbox = yes
>  location =
>  mailbox Drafts {
>    auto = subscribe
>    special_use = \Drafts
>  }
>  mailbox Sent {
>    auto = subscribe
>    special_use = \Sent
>  }
>  mailbox Spam {
>    auto = subscribe
>    autoexpunge = 30 days
>    special_use = \Junk
>  }
>  mailbox Trash {
>    auto = subscribe
>    autoexpunge = 30 days
>    special_use = \Trash
>  }
>  prefix =
>  separator = /
>  type = private
>}
>passdb {
>  args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
>  driver = sql
>}
>plugin {
>  acl = vfile:/usr/local/etc/dovecot/global-acls:cache_secs=300
>  acl_anyone = allow
>  fts = lucene
>  fts_autoindex = yes
>  fts_autoindex_exclude = \Junk
>  fts_autoindex_exclude2 = \Trash
>  fts_autoindex_exclude3 = \Spam
>  fts_autoindex_max_recent_msgs = 80
>  fts_index_timeout = 90
>  fts_lucene = whitespace_chars=@. normalize no_snowball
>  imapsieve_mailbox1_before =
>file:/usr/local/lib/dovecot/sieve/report-spam.sieve
>  imapsieve_mailbox1_causes = COPY
>  imapsieve_mailbox1_name = Spam
>imapsieve_mailbox2_before =
>file:/usr/local/lib/dovecot/sieve/report-ham.sieve
>  imapsieve_mailbox2_causes = COPY
>  imapsieve_mailbox2_from = Spam
>  imapsieve_mailbox2_name = *
>  last_login_dict = proxy::lastlogin
>  last_login_key = # hidden, use -P to show it
>  mail_crypt_curve = prime256v1
>  mail_crypt_global_private_key = # hidden, use -P to show it
>  mail_crypt_global_public_key = # hidden, use -P to show it
>  mail_crypt_save_version = 2
>mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete
>mailbox_rename
>  mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size
>  quota = count:User quota
>  quota_exceeded_message = Storage quota for this account has been
>exceeded, please try again later.
>  quota_grace = 10%%
>  quota_rule2 = Trash:ignore
>  quota_status_nouser = DUNNO
>  quota_status_overquota = 552 5.2.2 Mailbox is full
>  quota_status_success = DUNNO
>  quota_vsizes = true
>  quota_warning = storage=100%% quota-exceeded 100 %u
>  quota_warning2 = storage=95%% quota-warning 95 %u
>  quota_warning3 = storage=90%% quota-warning 90 %u
>  quota_warning4 = storage=85%% quota-warning 85 %u
>  quota_warning5 = storage=75%% quota-warning 75 %u
>sieve =
>file:/var/vmail/sieve/%d/%n/scripts;active=/var/vmail/sieve/%d/%n/active-script.sieve
>  sieve_before = /var/vmail/sieve/global/spam-global.sieve
>  sieve_extensions = +notify +imapflags +spamtest +spamtestplus
>+virustest +editheader
>  sieve_global_extensions = +vnd.dovecot.pipe +vnd.dovecot.execute
>+vnd.dovecot.environment
>  sieve_max_redirects = 30
>  sieve_max_script_size = 1M
>  sieve_pipe_bin_dir = /usr/local/lib/dovecot/sieve
>  sieve_plugins = sieve_imapsieve sieve_extprograms
>  sieve_spamtest_max_header = X-Spamd-Result: default: [[:alnum:]]+
>\[-?[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+ / (-?[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+)\]
>  sieve_spamtest_status_header = X-Spamd-Result: default: [[:alnum:]]+
>\[(-?[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+) / -?[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+\]
>  sieve_spamtest_status_type = score
>  sieve_user_log = /var/vmail/sieve/sieve_error.log
>  sieve_virustest_status_header = X-Virus-Scan: Found to be (.+)\.
>  sieve_virustest_status_type = text
>  sieve_virustest_text_value1 = clean
>  sieve_virustest_text_value5 = infected
>  trash = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/trash.conf
>  welcome_script = welcome %n postmaster@%d
>  welcome_wait = yes
>}
>postmaster_address = postmaster at example.com
>protocols = imap lmtp sieve
>sendmail_path = /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
>service auth-worker {
>  user = vmail
>}
>service auth {
>  unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
>    group = postfix
>    mode = 0660
>    user = postfix
>  }
>  unix_listener auth-userdb {
>    group = vmail
>    mode = 0666
>    user = vmail
>  }
>}
>service dict {
>  unix_listener dict {
>    mode = 0600
>    user = vmail
>  }
>  user = root
>}
>service imap-login {
>  inet_listener imap {
>    port = 143
>  }
>  process_min_avail = 1
>}
>service imap {
>  executable = imap
>}
>service lmtp {
>  executable = lmtp
>  unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp {
>    group = postfix
>    mode = 0660
>    user = postfix
>  }
>}
>service managesieve-login {
>  inet_listener sieve {
>    address = 172.16.21.3
>    port = 4190
>  }
>}
>service quota-status {
>  client_limit = 1
>  executable = quota-status -p postfix
>  unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-quota {
>    group = postfix
>    mode = 0660
>    user = postfix
>  }
>}
>service quota-warning {
>  executable = script /usr/local/etc/dovecot/quota-warning.sh
>  unix_listener quota-warning {
>    group = vmail
>    mode = 0660
>    user = vmail
>  }
>  user = vmail
>}
>service stats {
>  unix_listener stats-reader {
>    group = vmail
>    mode = 0660
>    user = vmail
>  }
>  unix_listener stats-writer {
>    group = vmail
>    mode = 0660
>    user = vmail
>  }
>}
>service welcome {
>  executable = script /usr/local/etc/dovecot/welcome.sh
>  unix_listener welcome {
>    user = vmail
>  }
>  user = vmail
>}
>ssl = required
>ssl_cert = </usr/local/etc/ssl/acme.sh/example.com/fullchain.crt
>ssl_cipher_list = EECDH+AESGCM:EDH+AESGCM
>ssl_curve_list = P-256
>ssl_dh = # hidden, use -P to show it
>ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it
>ssl_min_protocol = TLSv1.2
>ssl_options = no_ticket
>ssl_prefer_server_ciphers = yes
>userdb {
>  args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
>  driver = sql
>}
>protocol lmtp {
>  mail_fsync = optimized
>  mail_plugins = acl fts fts_lucene mail_log notify quota trash
>virtual welcome zlib mail_crypt sieve
>}
>protocol lda {
>  mail_fsync = optimized
>  mail_plugins = acl fts fts_lucene mail_log notify quota trash
>virtual welcome zlib mail_crypt sieve
>}
>protocol imap {
>  mail_max_userip_connections = 20
>  mail_plugins = acl fts fts_lucene mail_log notify quota trash
>virtual welcome zlib mail_crypt imap_acl imap_quota imap_sieve
>imap_zlib last_login quota welcome
>}
>protocol sieve {
>  info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-sieve.log
>  log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot-sieve-errors.log
>}
>
>mail_home = /var/vmail/mailboxes/%d/%n
>mail_location = dbox:~/mail

-- 
Christian Kivalo