dovecot - Apr 2009 - Virtual mailbox plugin, 4 days of struggling

Hello,

I finally got an INBOX to work, but is virtual mailbox plugin only
meant to create a virtual inbox, or should I be able to have an
Allmails virtual folder that is viewable in my imap client? if
~/virtual/ is my location, would I create an Allmails directory in the
virtual/ or virtual/INBOX/Allmails. Im fairly confused on how this is
suppose to work. I was trying to duplicate the gmail-like setup on the
wiki but I cant get it work.

Per the wiki, i put in the userdb inbox select, but made swapped pop3 for imap

zeus:/etc/dovecot# dovecot -n
# 1.2.rc3: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 x86_64 Debian squeeze/sid
base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/
log_path: /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log
info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot/info.log
log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
protocols: imap pop3 lda
listen: 208.200.251.181
ssl: no
disable_plaintext_auth: no
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
login_greeting: Hello there.
login_log_format_elements: <%u> <%r>
login_log_format: %s
login_process_per_connection: no
login_process_size: 128
login_processes_count: 4
login_max_processes_count: 20
login_max_connections: 128
mail_max_userip_connections(default): 15
mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 15
mail_max_userip_connections(pop3): 1
verbose_proctitle: yes
first_valid_uid: 8
last_valid_uid: 8
first_valid_gid: 8
last_valid_gid: 8
mail_access_groups: mail
mail_privileged_group: mail
mail_uid: 8
mail_gid: 8
mail_location: maildir:~/:INDEX=dovecot-index
mailbox_idle_check_interval: 60
mail_debug: yes
fsync_disable: yes
mailbox_list_index_disable: no
mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota virtual autocreate
mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota virtual autocreate
mail_plugins(pop3): quota
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3
mail_log_prefix: %Ls <%u>:
imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle delay-newmail
imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle delay-newmail
imap_client_workarounds(pop3):
pop3_no_flag_updates(default): no
pop3_no_flag_updates(imap): no
pop3_no_flag_updates(pop3): yes
pop3_client_workarounds(default):
pop3_client_workarounds(imap):
pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh
pop3_logout_format(default): top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s
pop3_logout_format(imap): top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s
pop3_logout_format(pop3): retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s
namespace:
  type: private
  separator: /
  hidden: yes
  list: yes
  subscriptions: yes
namespace:
  type: private
  separator: /
  prefix: virtual/
  location: virtual:~/virtual:INDEX=~/dovecot-index
  list: yes
  subscriptions: yes
namespace:
  type: private
  separator: /
  prefix: RealMails/
  hidden: yes
  list: no
  subscriptions: yes
auth default:
  mechanisms: plain login
  default_realm: pacwebdev.com
  cache_ttl: 60
  debug: yes
  worker_max_count: 60
  passdb:
    driver: sql
    args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
  userdb:
    driver: prefetch
  userdb:
    driver: sql
    args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
  socket:
    type: listen
    client:
      path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client
      mode: 438
      user: mail
      group: mail
    master:
      path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
      mode: 438
      user: mail
      group: mail
plugin:
  quota: maildir
  quota_rule: Trash:ignore
  quota_rule2: Sent:ignore
  quota_rule3: Spam:ignore
  quota_rule4: Archive:ignore
  quota_rule5: Sent Items:ignore
  quota_rule6: Deleted Items:ignore
  quota_warning: storage=95%% /etc/dovecot/quota-warning.sh 95
  quota_warning2: storage=80%% /etc/dovecot/quota-warning.sh 80
  autocreate: Trash
  autocreate2: Spam
  autosubscribe: Trash
  autosubscribe2: Spam
  auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master

Hi Brandon,

judging from your other posts, I think you made some progress on this
already. Nonetheless, I will share my working virtual config here. In
dovecot.conf I have:

  # Virtual mailboxes
  namespace private {
    #  list = no
    prefix = virtual/
    separator = /
    # Store virtual mailbox in a "virtual" subdirectory. We use the fs
layout,
    # so nesting of mailboxes is done using normal filesystem nesting.
    location = virtual:~/Mail/virtual:LAYOUT=fs
  }

  protocol imap {
    # Enable virtual mailboxes
    mail_plugins = virtual

Then, in ~/Mail/virtual I have a directory for each virtual mailbox, which
contains a dovecot-virtual file. For example,
~/Mail/virtual/INBOX/dovecot-virtual contains:
  INBOX
  INBOX/Lists
  INBOX/Bulk
  INBOX/MaybeSpam
  Folders/TODO
    all

(Where INBOX and subfolders refers to the INBOX folder in the default
namespace, with no prefix, which also has inbox = yes set). This allows me to
view all my new mail by connecting to imaps://host/virtual/INBOX, and only see
important mail on my phone by connecting to imaps://host/INBOX, i.e., my real
inbox).

I hope this helps a bit,

Matthijs
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On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs at stdin.nl>
wrote:
> Hi Brandon,
>
> judging from your other posts, I think you made some progress on this
> already. Nonetheless, I will share my working virtual config here. In
> dovecot.conf I have:
>
> ?# Virtual mailboxes
> ?namespace private {
> ? ?# ?list = no
> ? ?prefix = virtual/
> ? ?separator = /
> ? ?# Store virtual mailbox in a "virtual" subdirectory. We use
the fs layout,
> ? ?# so nesting of mailboxes is done using normal filesystem nesting.
> ? ?location = virtual:~/Mail/virtual:LAYOUT=fs
> ?}
>
> ?protocol imap {
> ? ?# Enable virtual mailboxes
> ? ?mail_plugins = virtual
>
> Then, in ~/Mail/virtual I have a directory for each virtual mailbox, which
> contains a dovecot-virtual file. For example,
> ~/Mail/virtual/INBOX/dovecot-virtual contains:
> ?INBOX
> ?INBOX/Lists
> ?INBOX/Bulk
> ?INBOX/MaybeSpam
> ?Folders/TODO
> ? ?all
>
> (Where INBOX and subfolders refers to the INBOX folder in the default
> namespace, with no prefix, which also has inbox = yes set). This allows me
to
> view all my new mail by connecting to imaps://host/virtual/INBOX, and only
see
> important mail on my phone by connecting to imaps://host/INBOX, i.e., my
real
> inbox).
>
> I hope this helps a bit,
>
> Matthijs
>
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Thanks for the reply! I will go try this, I stuck Allmail under the
virtual directory and i have gotten some things to partially work, but
I will try your setup and see where it gets me!

=D

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Brandon Lamb <brandonlamb at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs at
stdin.nl> wrote:
>> Hi Brandon,
>>
>> judging from your other posts, I think you made some progress on this
>> already. Nonetheless, I will share my working virtual config here. In
>> dovecot.conf I have:
>>
>> ?# Virtual mailboxes
>> ?namespace private {
>> ? ?# ?list = no
>> ? ?prefix = virtual/
>> ? ?separator = /
>> ? ?# Store virtual mailbox in a "virtual" subdirectory. We
use the fs layout,
>> ? ?# so nesting of mailboxes is done using normal filesystem nesting.
>> ? ?location = virtual:~/Mail/virtual:LAYOUT=fs
>> ?}
>>
>> ?protocol imap {
>> ? ?# Enable virtual mailboxes
>> ? ?mail_plugins = virtual
>>
>> Then, in ~/Mail/virtual I have a directory for each virtual mailbox,
which
>> contains a dovecot-virtual file. For example,
>> ~/Mail/virtual/INBOX/dovecot-virtual contains:
>> ?INBOX
>> ?INBOX/Lists
>> ?INBOX/Bulk
>> ?INBOX/MaybeSpam
>> ?Folders/TODO
>> ? ?all
>>
>> (Where INBOX and subfolders refers to the INBOX folder in the default
>> namespace, with no prefix, which also has inbox = yes set). This allows
me to
>> view all my new mail by connecting to imaps://host/virtual/INBOX, and
only see
>> important mail on my phone by connecting to imaps://host/INBOX, i.e.,
my real
>> inbox).
>>
>> I hope this helps a bit,
>>
>> Matthijs
>>
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>
> Thanks for the reply! I will go try this, I stuck Allmail under the
> virtual directory and i have gotten some things to partially work, but
> I will try your setup and see where it gets me!
>
> =D
>
Oh wait, dangit, this is what I have now, I misread this.

I cant seem to get the inthread x-references2 x-mailbox INBOX to work.
I setup an Allmail under /virtual with * and all as the search, then
created Inbox2 using virtual/Allmail and inthread x-references2
x-mailbox INBOX but it gives a server bug. Not sure if that is very
clear or not.