dovecot - Dec 2010 - namespace and list=children inconsistencies

Hi,

after setting up a new Dovecot server with shared and public namespaces,
both with hidden=no and list=children, I see some inconsistency in the
folder listing.

. NAMESPACE
* NAMESPACE (("" "/")) (("Shared/" "/"))
(("Public/" "/"))
. OK Namespace completed.

. LIST "" *
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX"
* LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "Shared/user at do.main"
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Shared/user at do.main/INBOX"
* LIST (\HasChildren) "/" "Public"
. OK List completed.

. LIST "Shared/" *
* LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "Shared/user at do.main"
. OK List completed.

. LIST "Public/" *
. OK List completed.

With LIST "Shared/" the other users INBOX is missing, so with
namespace
capable clients like Thunderbird it is impossible to see or subscribe
this folder.

The "Public/" namespace has some subfolders, but only for other
acl_groups and I don't have rights to access any of them. So the LIST
"Public/" looks good. However, with LIST "" * it is shown
without the
trailing slash and with \HasChildren where it should be hidden.

Here is the relevant doveconf -n output:
...
namespace {
  list = children
  location = maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/shared/%%u
  prefix = Shared/%%u/
  separator = /
  subscriptions = no
  type = shared
}
namespace {
  list = children
  location = cydir:/var/spool/imap/public:INDEX=~/public
  prefix = Public/
  separator = /
  subscriptions = no
  type = public
}
...

On 2010-12-15 7:38 PM, Holger Mauermann wrote:
> Here is the relevant doveconf -n output:
> ...
Please always include *full* doveconf -n output, not just what you
*think* is relevant... its not that much more, and includes extra info
that people sometimes forget - like dovecot version (and filesystem, etc)...

-- 

Best regards,

Charles

Am 16.12.2010 01:38, schrieb Holger Mauermann:
> With LIST "Shared/" the other users INBOX is missing, so with
namespace
> capable clients like Thunderbird it is impossible to see or subscribe
> this folder.
After restarting Thunderbird now I can see and subscribe the other users
INBOX. However, I still think that a "LIST Shared/ *" should include
*all* sub mailboxes. Or am I wrong?
> The "Public/" namespace has some subfolders, but only for other
> acl_groups and I don't have rights to access any of them. So the LIST
> "Public/" looks good. However, with LIST "" * it is
shown without the
> trailing slash and with \HasChildren where it should be hidden.
I found a solution for this annoying "Public/" namespace vs.
nonexistent
"Public" mailbox behavior:

I'm trying to setup per-domain public folders. First I used
location=cydir:/path/%d/public:..., but Dovecot doesn't expand the %d
variable inside type=public namespaces.

Next I used location=cydir:/path/public:... and created
/path/public/do.main and a dovecot-acl file inside with content
"group=do.main lrswi". This works fine for users with the
acl_groups=do.main extra field, they see their Public/ namespace. But
users without a group or users in a group for that no public folder
exists are wondering why they see a "Public" mailbox, which gives an
error on select or subscribe...

Now I return CONCAT('cydir:/path/', `domain`,
'/public:INDEX=~/public')
AS `namespace/pub/location` in the user_query, which works fine for all
users in all domains :-) as long as there is either no subfolder or a
subfolder/dovecot-acl with "anyone lrs" in /path/do.main/public.

Holger

On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 01:38 +0100, Holger Mauermann
wrote:
> . LIST "" *
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX"
> * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "Shared/user at
do.main"
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Shared/user at
do.main/INBOX"
> * LIST (\HasChildren) "/" "Public"
> . OK List completed.
> 
> . LIST "Shared/" *
> * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "Shared/user at
do.main"
> . OK List completed.
This is a bug since it doesn't show the Shared/user at do.main/INBOX.
I'll
look into it.
> . LIST "Public/" *
> . OK List completed.
This is expected.
> namespace {
>   list = children
>   location = cydir:/var/spool/imap/public:INDEX=~/public
You really shouldn't be using cydir. It's mainly intended for testing
and for learning how to implement a Dovecot storage backend. You should
use sdbox instead.