Quoting Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi>:
You can't have per-user seen flags with mbox currently. So create a
public namespace with a maildir location and set up dovecot-acl file in
a way that allows only some specific users access to it. So for example:
To refresh, I want a shared account, but my system was Dovecot 1.1 with
all mbox mailboxes. Well, this is what I've done so far:
1) Upgraded to dovecot 1.2 (just because I could, I guess)
2) Tried to setup private/public namespaces... Edited "dovecot -n" output:
# 1.2.4: /etc/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.18-128.4.1.el5.centos.plus x86_64 CentOS release 5.3 (Final)
[...]
mail_location:
mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/dovecot/indexes/
%u
[...]
mail_plugins(default): zlib acl
mail_plugins(imap): zlib acl
mail_plugins(pop3): zlib
[...]
namespace:
type: private
separator: /
inbox: yes
list: yes
subscriptions: yes
namespace:
type: public
separator: /
prefix: shared/
location:
maildir:/var/spool/mail/public:INDEX=/var/dovecot/indexes/public/%u
list: no
lda:
postmaster_address: postmas...@physics.utexas.edu
hostname: mail.ph.utexas.edu
log_path:
info_log_path:
syslog_facility: mail
auth default:
passdb:
driver: ldap
args: /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf
userdb:
driver: ldap
args: /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf
plugin:
acl: vfile
3) Created /var/spool/mail/public/.myfolder for the account to deliver to.
Created empty dovecot-shared file for it.
4) Created a .forward file in the account to run "deliver" which does in
fact deliver the account's email to the right maildir location.
5) Created /var/spool/mail/public/.myfolder/dovecot-acl which has something
like:
owner lrwstiekxa
user=me lrwstiekxa
user=you lrst
So, mail is delivered to this account correctly as a maildir mailbox.
But, I don't know how to read it, and/or configured something incorrectly.
It appears to be there, more or less:
a0 namespace
* NAMESPACE (("" "/")) NIL (("shared/" "/"))
a0 OK Namespace completed.
a0 list "" "shared/"
* LIST (\Noselect \HasNoChildren) "/" "shared/"
a0 OK List completed.
But I can't figure out how to access it (either manuall via telnet as above,
or from a client, etc).
So, how do I access it, and/or what did I do wrong?
While I've been doing email servers since the 1980's, this is my first
try at using IMAP namespaces and shared folders, and I'm just not getting
it... :(
--
Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin
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