dovecot - May 2010 - (1.2.11): Confused about shared/public folders

hi,

i red several hours a lot of documentation (wiki, Blogs, lists ...) how
to get public folders. Under cyrus it is very easy. Create a mbox on the
top with cyradm and some acls. Nothing more ...
All i want is:

public/info
public/group/internal
public/foo
public/foo/bla

on info, everybody can read
on group/internal  - only group has full access to internal
public/foo/bla  - read write for everyone

The flags (seen, ...) is stored for all.

The wiki entries are to old or mixing several things and are not clear,
what I should do, to get it working.

my config:

dovecot.conf

mail_location = maildir:/imap/domain/%1n/%n:INDEX=/imap/indexes/domain/%
1n/%n 

namespace private {
  separator = /
  prefix = 
  inbox = yes
}

#namespace shared {
#  separator = /
#  prefix = shared/%%u/
#  location = maildir:/imap/shared/domain/%1n/%
n:INDEX=mbox:/imap/shared/domain/%1n/%n
#  subscriptions = no
#  list = yes
#}

namespace public {
   separator = /
   prefix = public/
   location = maildir:/imap/shared/domain
   subscriptions = no
   list = yes
}


mail_uid = vmail
mail_gid = vmail
mail_privileged_group = vmail

protocol imap {
  login_executable
= /usr/local/dovecot/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
  mail_executable = /usr/local/dovecot/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap
  mail_plugin_dir = /usr/local/dovecot/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap/
  mail_plugins = quota imap_quota
  imap_idle_notify_interval = 120
  fsync_disable = yes
  mail_plugins = quota imap_quota acl
  imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle netscape-eoh
}


plugin {

  acl = vfile
  acl_shared_dict = file:/imap/rbg/acl/shared-mailboxes.db
  acl = vfile:/imap/rbg/acl/dovecot-acls
}


I wasn't able to use under plugins imap_acl, cause of errors:

open(/usr/local/dovecot/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap//lib02_imap_acl_plugin.so)
failed: ld.so.1: imap: fatal: relocation error: file
/usr/local/dovecot/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap//lib02_imap_acl_plugin.so: symbol
acl_mailbox_right_lookup: referenced symbol not found
Couldn't load required plugins
Error: imap dump-capability process returned 89
Fatal: Invalid configuration
in /usr/local/dovecot/1.2.11/etc/dovecot.conf

System is Solaris10, build by my self with Sieve Patches.


After changing to "acl" only, DoveCot starts.


So, i can see in Roundcube (webmail) the folder Public (or shared, from
the above example) but nothing more. Do i need symlinks, or what I have
to do after create the folder + permissions?

cu denny
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On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 12:45 +0200, Denny Schierz wrote:
> namespace public {
>    separator = /
>    prefix = public/
>    location = maildir:/imap/shared/domain
Note that /imap/shared/domain/ is in Maildir++ layout (like all other
user maildirs).
> So, i can see in Roundcube (webmail) the folder Public (or shared, from
> the above example) but nothing more. Do i need symlinks, or what I have
> to do after create the folder + permissions?
Your config looks correct. Just create the mailboxes correctly
under /imap/shared/domain/ and set their ACLs (default is not to have
any permissions), and it should work ok.

Test by talking IMAP protocol directly, IMAP clients might make you
think the problem is something completely different.
http://wiki.dovecot.org/TestInstallation

And see if any errors get logged. http://wiki.dovecot.org/Logging