dovecot - Jul 2006 - Shared folders not woking for me

Hello,

I'm new to dovecot, please forgive me my silly questions. :-)

My OS is FreeBSD 6.1. I just installed dovecot 1.0.beta9. I have created 
a public namespace this way:

namespace public {
  separator = /
  prefix = Public/
  location = maildir:/var/mail/public
}

namespace private {
   separator = /
   prefix    location = maildir:/home/%u/Maildir
   inbox = yes
}

Then I created a new group and added a user to it:


pw groupadd das
pw usermod testuser -g das

Then I created some files in /var/mail/public:

drwxrwx---  2 testuser  das   512 Jul 11 19:22 Tasks
drwx------  2 testuser  mail  512 Jul 11 19:20 cur
drwxrwx---  2 testuser  das   512 Jul 11 19:24 dovecot-shared
drwx------  2 testuser  mail  512 Jul 11 19:20 new
drwx------  2 testuser  mail  512 Jul 11 19:20 tmp

Then I restarted dovecot, and I tried to subscribe to 'Tasks', but my
email client (Thunderbird 1.5) does not allow it.

My other problem is about the "inbox = yes" setting. The private
namespace does have an inbox, and it shows up in thunderbird.
But it does not show my e-mails. I know that I have emails, I can read them with
the 'mail' command.

Please help me.

   Laszlo

>
> My other problem is about the "inbox = yes" setting. The private 
> namespace does have an inbox, and it shows up in thunderbird. But it 
> does not show my e-mails. I know that I have emails, I can read them 
> with the 'mail' command.
Another comment for this. I'm using postfix, and my inbox is in

/var/mail/testuser

and it is not in maildir format. But this is the system wide inbox, I 
guess dovecot can handle this?

  Laszlo
>

On 7/11/2006 09:36, Nagy L?szl? seems to have typed:
> namespace private {
>    separator = /
>    prefix >    location = maildir:/home/%u/Maildir
>    inbox = yes
[snip]
> My other problem is about the "inbox = yes" setting. The private
namespace does have an inbox, and it shows up in thunderbird.
> But it does not show my e-mails. I know that I have emails, I can read them
with the 'mail' command.
I don't know about the shared mailboxes section, but from the
"private"
section, it looks like you are trying to have Dovecot use maildir, but
if you are getting mail using the "mail" command, then you are using
mbox not maildirs.

To setup the system to use maildir, I had to recompile procmail.

If you want to do this, I did the following (FreeBSD 6.1) (as root):

cd /usr/ports/mail/procmail

make

emacs /usr/ports/mail/procmail/work/procmail-3.xx/src/authenticate.c
# (where xx) is some numbers corresponding to whatever version is in
your ports.)
# Change Lines 41-51:
**********
/*#ifndef MAILSPOOLDIR */
#define MAILSPOOLDIR    "/usr/mail/"         /* watch the trailing /
*/
/*#endif */
/*#ifndef MAILSPOOLSUFFIX */
#define MAILSPOOLSUFFIX "/"           /* suffix to force maildir or MH
style */
/*#endif */
#ifndef MAILSPOOLHASH
#define MAILSPOOLHASH   0      /* 2 would deliver to /var/spool/mail/b/a/bar */
#endif
/*#define MAILSPOOLHOME "/.mail"                      /* watch the
leading / */
**********

cd /usr/ports/mail/procmail/work/procmail-3.xx/src/
make
cd /usr/ports/mail/procmail/
make install

# This will cause the mail to be delivered to maildir:/usr/mail/%u

hth