dovecot - Feb 2008 - Shared Mailbox

On 2/20/2008, c-schettner (c-schettner at versanet.de)
wrote:
> I use dovecot v1.0.rc.15
First thing you need to do is upgrade to a relase version... current is 
1.0.10.

rc15 is VERY old...


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Best regards,

Charles

Hi all,
I am a very new dovecot user and I do not have many experience in Linux 
configuration. I use dovecot v1.0.rc.15 (Debian package) IMAP service 
with virtual domains and users in /home/vmail and everything runs 
perfectly.

Now I want to share the "testfolder" under the mailbox of
"user1" to all
memebers of "example.net" but I don?t understand the wiki pages 
(http://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes). The ACL-plugin is on in 
dovecot.conf.

my structure under /home/vmail
-example.net
--user1
---/.drafts
---/.INBOX.testfolder
---/.Sent
---/.trash
---/Cur
........
--user2
--- (dito)
-xxxx.de
--user3
--user4
-test.com
--user5
--user6

can anybody help with a configuration tip?

Many thanks,
Christian.

Hi all,
this is my last try to get help before giving up. I red the dovecot-wiki 
several times, but it doesn?t work.
I don?t know what?s wrong. If I open thunderbird I see the folder 
"public" but I cannot subscribe it.
I have dovecot 1.0.10. Yes it?s a little bit old but it is the latest 
version under debian packages.
Please see my configuration below.


here the content of: /etc/dovecot-acl/public

user=user1 at domain1.de rwl


here my /home/vmail
------------------------------------------------------------------
mail:/home/vmail# ls -l
insgesamt 32
drwx------ 6 vmail vmail 4096 2008-02-22 09:43 domain1.de
drwx------ 4 vmail vmail 4096 2008-02-15 16:56 domain2.de
-rw------- 1 vmail vmail 7762 2008-02-22 13:37 dovecot-deliver.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 160 2008-02-22 09:40 globalsieverc
-rw------- 1 vmail vmail 204 2008-02-22 09:40 globalsievercc
drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 2008-02-22 13:16 public
drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4096 2008-02-18 09:08 web.de
-------------------------------------------------------------------


here a part of my dovecot.conf:

---------------------------------------------
mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n

namespace public {
separator = /
prefix = public/
location = maildir:/home/vmail/public
hidden = no
}

namespace private {
separator = /
prefix inbox = yes
}

mail_extra_groups = mail
#umask = 0077

protocol imap {

mail_plugins = acl
}

plugin {
#quota = maildir
acl = vfile:/etc/dovecot-acls
#trash = /etc/dovecot-trash.conf
}
------------------------------------------------

here the shared folder:

------------------------------------------------------------
mail:/home/vmail/public# ls -l
insgesamt 12
drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2008-02-22 12:14 cur
-rw-r--r-- 1 vmail vmail 0 2008-02-22 13:16 dovecot-shared
drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2008-02-22 12:14 new
drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 2008-02-22 12:14 tmp
mail:/home/vmail/public#
-------------------------------------------------------------


Thanks,
Christian.