dovecot - Jun 2012 - last hope... public namespace and directory structure

hello,

 

I would like to migrate to dovecot, but I have a problem with a public
namespace declaration:

# 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

# OS: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 x86_64 Debian wheezy/sid

 

And here are the relevant parts from the configuration:

 

namespace {


 

  location = maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/%d/public

  prefix = Public.

  separator = . 

  type = public

}

namespace inbox {


  

  prefix 
  separator = .

  subscriptions = yes

  type = private

}

 

I assume that all folders under ./public/ are public mailboxes. The public
folder itself is not a  maildir, but contains 

the team mailboxes i.e.

./public/.sales/                

./public/.service/

./public/.purchase/

 

The file passwd for those 3 samples looks like this:

sales@$DOMAIN::5000:5000::/var/mail/vhosts/$DOMAIN/public/.sales 

service@$DOMAIN::5000:5000::/var/mail/vhosts/$DOMAIN/public/.service

purchase@$DOMAIN::5000:5000::/var/mail/vhosts/$DOMAIN/public/.purchase

Note: All other users have mail_location /var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n

 

Now a have the following problem: If  I login in as user sales and create a
folder foo and in there a folder bar. 

The directory structure is:

./public/. sales /.foo and /public/. sales /.foo.bar

that?s exactly what I?m expect.

Now I logon as ?normal? user. I can see the namespace Public with the sales
mailbox 
but no subfolder foo or foo.bar. 

Now I create also the folders foo and in there bar, but the result is 
 to
me unexpected ;-):

./public/. sales

./public/. sales.foo

./public/. sales.foo.bar

 

Looking forward to your comment,

 

Daniel

On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 09:53 +0200, Daniel Fischer wrote:
> The file passwd for those 3 samples looks like this:
> 
> sales@$DOMAIN::5000:5000::/var/mail/vhosts/$DOMAIN/public/.sales 
> 
> service@$DOMAIN::5000:5000::/var/mail/vhosts/$DOMAIN/public/.service
> 
> purchase@$DOMAIN::5000:5000::/var/mail/vhosts/$DOMAIN/public/.purchase
> 
> Note: All other users have mail_location /var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n
> 
> Now a have the following problem: If  I login in as user sales and create a
> folder foo and in there a folder bar. 
It can't work like that. You need to have all of the these homes to
be /var/mail/vhosts/$DOMAIN/public if you want them to be able to create
any new folders. Then if needed add ACLs to the users. For delivering
mails to these users you could set up a Sieve script to do it, or maybe
something else..