dovecot - Nov 2010 - Dovecot + vpopmail + shared folders

I'm using dovecot 1.2.14 with vpopmail.

I've enabled shared folders and the default setup was not working. The  
default setup being this line:

location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u

Going through the Archives I saw a message from Timo that said to  
apply a patch and use this line instead:


location =  
maildir:/usr/home/vpopmail/domains/%d/%%n/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u

It seems like the patch is already existing in version 1.2.14 and that  
line works well for shared folders for domains directly under  
/usr/home/vpopmail/domains.

However, with vpopmail after a certain number of domains, it starts  
putting them in /usr/home/vpopmail/domains/A, ..domains/B, etc.

Shared folders do not work for those domains since my location line is  
forcing it to look directly in /usr/home/vpopmail/domains/xyz.com  
instead of /usr/home/vpopmail/domains/A/xyz.com

Any workaround this ? How come we can't use %h or ~/ directly ?

Is there a way to maybe create an Environment variable that will hold  
everything up to the '/%d' ? Maybe populate that variable from a  
post-login script that gets the root directory from the vpopmail  
database ?


Quoting qmail at top-consulting.net:
> I'm using dovecot 1.2.14 with vpopmail.
>
> I've enabled shared folders and the default setup was not working.  
> The default setup being this line:
>
> location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u
>
> Going through the Archives I saw a message from Timo that said to  
> apply a patch and use this line instead:
>
>
> location =  
>
maildir:/usr/home/vpopmail/domains/%d/%%n/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u
>
> It seems like the patch is already existing in version 1.2.14 and  
> that line works well for shared folders for domains directly under  
> /usr/home/vpopmail/domains.
>
> However, with vpopmail after a certain number of domains, it starts  
> putting them in /usr/home/vpopmail/domains/A, ..domains/B, etc.
>
> Shared folders do not work for those domains since my location line  
> is forcing it to look directly in /usr/home/vpopmail/domains/xyz.com  
> instead of /usr/home/vpopmail/domains/A/xyz.com
>
> Any workaround this ? How come we can't use %h or ~/ directly ?
>
>
>

Anyone has any ideas ?

I also realized that not only can domains be placed within another  
sub-folder if there are too many, but so can users.

For example, if a domain has 1000 users, its path might be something like:

/usr/home/vpopmail/domains/8/xyz.com/A/myuser

Therefore a static location is not feasible at all.
> I'm using dovecot 1.2.14 with vpopmail.
>
> I've enabled shared folders and the default setup was not working.  
> The default setup being this line:
>
> location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u
>
> Going through the Archives I saw a message from Timo that said to  
> apply a patch and use this line instead:
>
>
> location =  
>
maildir:/usr/home/vpopmail/domains/%d/%%n/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u
>
> It seems like the patch is already existing in version 1.2.14 and  
> that line works well for shared folders for domains directly under  
> /usr/home/vpopmail/domains.
>
> However, with vpopmail after a certain number of domains, it starts  
> putting them in /usr/home/vpopmail/domains/A, ..domains/B, etc.
>
> Shared folders do not work for those domains since my location line  
> is forcing it to look directly in /usr/home/vpopmail/domains/xyz.com  
> instead of /usr/home/vpopmail/domains/A/xyz.com
>
> Any workaround this ? How come we can't use %h or ~/ directly ?
>
>
>

On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 14:43 -0500, qmail at top-consulting.net
wrote:
> I'm using dovecot 1.2.14 with vpopmail.
> 
> I've enabled shared folders and the default setup was not working. The
> default setup being this line:
> 
> location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u
> 
> Going through the Archives I saw a message from Timo that said to  
> apply a patch and use this line instead:
> 
> 
> location =  
>
maildir:/usr/home/vpopmail/domains/%d/%%n/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u
I'm not sure why I would have said that (maybe you misunderstood or I
was talking only about some specific situation or some workaround for
something). %%h is cleaner, although it does require a userdb lookup.

Why isn't %%h working? Set auth_debug=yes and mail_debug=yes and show
what the logs say when trying to access a shared mailbox then. Also
instead of using a client, talk IMAP protocol directly
(http://wiki.dovecot.org/TestInstallation), something like:

a LIST "" *
b SELECT "shared/user/some-shared-box"

What do the commands reply?