Villalovos, John L
2006-Feb-08 01:30 UTC
[Dovecot] How to have a "public" readonly folder?
I searched the website and the mailing list and had difficulty finding an answer. I have my email users who are using dovecot-1.0.beta2. I also have setup a dummy account to get the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML) traffic. I would like to have it so that my IMAP users (maybe POP3 but don't need that) be able to read the LKML mailing list from that email account. I can put the email into an mbox or a maildir for the LKML mail. I have played around with the namespace and public option and I can't get it to work :( I tried this: namespace public { separator = / prefix = Public/ location = maildir:/home/virtemail/lkml/ } In my email client (Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5), I am unable to view the Public folder. If I select subscribe, I can see the Public folder but it is grayed out. Any ideas? Thanks, John
Villalovos, John L
2006-Feb-08 18:29 UTC
[Dovecot] How to have a "public" readonly folder?
dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org <> wrote:> I have my email users who are using dovecot-1.0.beta2.I just upgraded to dovecot-1.0.beta3. No change.> I also have setup a dummy account to get the Linux Kernel Mailing > List (LKML) traffic. > > I would like to have it so that my IMAP users (maybe POP3 but > don't need > that) be able to read the LKML mailing list from that email account. > > I can put the email into an mbox or a maildir for the LKML mail. > > I have played around with the namespace and public option and I can't > get it to work :( > > I tried this: > > namespace public { > separator = / > prefix = Public/ > location = maildir:/home/virtemail/lkml/ > } > > In my email client (Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5), I am unable to view the > Public folder. If I select subscribe, I can see the Public folder > but it is grayed out.If I do a symbolic link it works, in the sense that I can know subscribe to the folder. I created the file 'dovecot-shared' in the shared folder (I also updated the Wiki to make the procedure a little bit clearer). I couldn't seem to figure out a good way to make it read only though. So I still can't seem to get the namespace method working. I also tried pointing the location at an mbox and that did not work. In the client I can see the Public folder listed but it is grayed out and won't let me subscribe. Any thoughts? Thanks, John