dovecot - Oct 2008 - shared mailboxes in 1.2 question

Hi Timo,

i tried a littel bit playing with shared mailboxes

namespace shared {
  separator = /
  # %%u gets expanded to the remote user. Instead of %%u you can
  # also use %%n and %%d.
  prefix = "shared/"
  location
maildir:/usr/local/virtual/%d:CONTROL=/usr/local/virtual/%d:INDEX=/usr/local/virtual/%d
  inbox = no
  list = yes
  subscriptions = yes
  hidden = no
}

should at last show
all other users mailboxes
 when .DEFAULT acl
is authenticated lr
and dovecot-acl
in /usr/local/virtual/%d
is authenticated lr too

but instead only shared is shown in thunderbird

playing with %%u etc
in combinations does not lead to working results too
(sometimes shared^^ was shown, might be user at domain.de isnt working for
shared maildirs, @ could be a problem to maildir....?)


your example was

namespace shared {
  separator = /
  # %%u gets expanded to the remote user. Instead of %%u you can
  # also use %%n and %%d.
  prefix = shared/%%u/
  location = Maildir:/home/%%u/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u
}

so something with acl might not working in 1.2
and i think i need more explanation ( examples ...)
in using %%u %%d ... to test shared mailboxes

there were no usefull log entries which would give some
more advice during testing...so it might be my fault and it only config
stuff i didnt understand


-- 
Best Regards

MfG Robert Schetterer

Germany/Munich/Bavaria

On Oct 6, 2008, at 3:32 AM, Robert Schetterer wrote:
> namespace shared {
>  separator = /
>  # %%u gets expanded to the remote user. Instead of %%u you can
>  # also use %%n and %%d.
>  prefix = "shared/"
>  location >
maildir:/usr/local/virtual/%d:CONTROL=/usr/local/virtual/%d:INDEX=/
> usr/local/virtual/%d
%d gets expanded immediately when user logs in. So if your user is  
user at domain, this gets expanded to:

maildir:/usr/local/virtual/domain:CONTROL=..etc..

With %%d it would expand to the destination user's domain, but I don't  
think you want that either. If your users' mailboxes are in /usr/local/ 
virtual/%d/%n and you want them to be accessed, you'll need to use / 
usr/local/virtual/%%d/%%n as the path.
> but instead only shared is shown in thunderbird
Unless you manually subscribe to the shared mailboxes, they're not  
visible to clients. Mailbox listing isn't supported currently.

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Timo Sirainen schrieb:
> On Oct 6, 2008, at 3:32 AM, Robert Schetterer wrote:
> 
>> namespace shared {
>>  separator = /
>>  # %%u gets expanded to the remote user. Instead of %%u you can
>>  # also use %%n and %%d.
>>  prefix = "shared/"
>>  location >>
maildir:/usr/local/virtual/%d:CONTROL=/usr/local/virtual/%d:INDEX=/usr/local/virtual/%d
>>
> 
> %d gets expanded immediately when user logs in. So if your user is
> user at domain, this gets expanded to:
> 
> maildir:/usr/local/virtual/domain:CONTROL=..etc..
> 
> With %%d it would expand to the destination user's domain, but I
don't
> think you want that either. If your users' mailboxes are in
> /usr/local/virtual/%d/%n and you want them to be accessed, you'll need
> to use /usr/local/virtual/%%d/%%n as the path.
> 
>> but instead only shared is shown in thunderbird
> 
> Unless you manually subscribe to the shared mailboxes, they're not
> visible to clients. Mailbox listing isn't supported currently.
> 
Hi Timo,
understand manually subscribe is a "must have" currently
i will test this
will you change this up to stable 1.2 ?

-- 
Best Regards

MfG Robert Schetterer

Germany/Munich/Bavaria