Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: > On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Cory Coager wrote: > >> Timo Sirainen wrote: >>> >>> Benjamin's setup should make it possible, but that works only for the >>> other users' INBOXes, and you do need that kludgy setup where users' >>> maildirs begin with ".". >>> >>> I was originally planning on making this easily possible for v1.1, but >>> it got delayed. v1.2 maybe will support this setup, but for now only >>> ugly kludges are possible. >>> >>> With v1.1 you could perhaps implement this more easily if you >>> use :LAYOUT=fs instead of Maildir++ layout.. >>> >> >> I can't get this to work at all, nothing to subscribe to. I'm using >> version 1.0.3 though, could this be why? >> > > Unless you're referring to ':LAYOUT=fs', it shouldn't be the issue. > 1.0.3 is the version I used to test the kludgy method. Before, I > tested directly (telnet localhost 143 and LIST "" "users/%" commands). > And just now I confirmed that you can subscribe to users/(username) > through Thunderbird. (But it still doesn't do much, since the > permissions problems remain.) > > Best, > Ben I'm using gentoo also so we must have the same exact version. Something strange though, my configuration file uses a different syntax than yours. Instead of using colons for variables it expects equals. So when I copied and pasted your config I got this error:
Error: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf line 1: Expecting '=' Fatal: Invalid configuration in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf Why is this happening?