dovecot - Mar 2012 - directly addressable public folders issues

Hi,

I would like to have an address info at example.com whose mails are stored in a 
public folder.
I also want certain users to be able to create sieve-filter-rules and 
subfolders.

From what I understand it's a good idea to have a separate location for home
and
for mail_location.

For my normal accounts I have:
home = /var/vmail/<user>
mail_location = ~/Maildir

Is there a way to have the same for public folders? This are my current 
settings:

namespace public {
  separator = /
  prefix = public/
  location = maildir:/var/vmail/public
  subscriptions = no
}


user_attrs = homeDirectory=home=/var/vmail/%$, =mail=maildir:~/Maildir


The LDAP-homeDirectory-attribute for info at example.com is
"public/.info"


Like this an incoming mail is stored below /var/vmail/public/.info/Maildir which
is good. The MUA seems to read to read from /var/vmail/public/.info though.

How can I make the MUA read from /var/vmail/public/.info/Maildir instead?

And in case this works - is it possible to have only certain users modify the 
sieve-rule for this public folder or do I definitely need a passdb-entry for 
info at example.com?
Modifying  scripts via commandline is not an option...

I'm using dovecot 1.2.


regards,


Tom Fernandes

On 3.3.2012, at 22.08, Tom Fernandes wrote:
> I would like to have an address info at example.com whose mails are stored
in a
> public folder.
..
> From what I understand it's a good idea to have a separate location for
home and
> for mail_location.
> 
> For my normal accounts I have:
> home = /var/vmail/<user>
> mail_location = ~/Maildir
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir

to unnecessary avoid autodetection.
> Is there a way to have the same for public folders? This are my current 
> settings:
> 
> namespace public {
>  separator = /
>  prefix = public/
>  location = maildir:/var/vmail/public
>  subscriptions = no
> }
That's ok.
> user_attrs = homeDirectory=home=/var/vmail/%$, =mail=maildir:~/Maildir
The "mail" isn't necessary here, since it's already globally
set.
> The LDAP-homeDirectory-attribute for info at example.com is
"public/.info"
That's not going to work too well.
> Like this an incoming mail is stored below /var/vmail/public/.info/Maildir
which
> is good. The MUA seems to read to read from /var/vmail/public/.info though.
> 
> How can I make the MUA read from /var/vmail/public/.info/Maildir instead?
You can't.
> And in case this works - is it possible to have only certain users modify
the
> sieve-rule for this public folder or do I definitely need a passdb-entry
for
> info at example.com?
> Modifying  scripts via commandline is not an option...
The way I did it was to make info@, sales@ and others aliases to
"company" user, which is a rather regular user (except can't
actually log in). For this "company" user I've a Sieve script that
puts the mails into the proper mailbox, e.g. fileinto "public/info".