On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 23:59 +0100, Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth wrote:
I'd like to provide shared mailboxes with maildir that should appear
like 'Shared/<mailboxname>' to the clients.
Using the namespace configuration below, everything works fine, exept
one thing: Mail clients (only tested with Thunderbird) won't allow to
put mails directly in 'Shared/mailboxname' (the folder it is greyed
out). You currently have to create subfolders and put the mails in those
subfolders.
..
namespace shared {
separator = /
# hidden = yes
prefix = Shared/spamrep/
location =
maildir:/var/spool/mail/Shared/spamrep:CONTROL=~/Maildir/control/Shared/spamrep:INDEX=~/Mail\
dir/index/Shared/spamrep
I find it strange that this kind of configuration even appears to
work. :) If you somehow manage to get it working with v1.0, there's a
good chance that it won't work anymore with v1.1.
So if you want to access "Shared/spamrep" as a mailbox, the prefix must
be Shared/.
If you wanted users to have different views of what the mailboxes look
like, you could just change the location to be different for different
users. Create symlinks to the visible global mailboxes to those
locations.
Having multiple namespaces setup that way seems reasonable to me.
e.g.
/var/spool/mail/Shared/tech/...
/var/spool/mail/Shared/financial/...
where 'Shared/tech' would be visible to many, but 'Shared/financial' would
be visible only to execs/accountants. And both would show up under a
common 'Shared/' prefix to keep them distinct from user folders.
It sounds like he just wants to be able to SELECT the root of a namespace.
Best,
Ben
