thanks for the quick reply! tried to create a shared namespace shared.example_com. still no success, unfortunately -
> location = > maildir:/home/vpopmail/domains/example.com/%%n/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%[email protected] now it's creating an empty /home/vpopmail/domains/example.com/%n/Maildir/dovecot-acl-list :( - Dave. On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Timo Sirainen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 10:46 -0700, David Fuchs wrote: > > namespace shared { > > separator = . > > prefix = shared.%%u. > > location = > > maildir:/home/vpopmail/domains/%%d/%%n/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u > > subscriptions = no > > list = yes > > } > .. > > however, when I connect to the server, the client does not see the "shared" > > namespace. also, dovecot seems to be creating empty shared-mailboxes.db in > > /home/vpopmail/domains/example/ (missing .com!). > > The problem is hierarchy separator. If you have [email protected], the > mailbox looks like: > > [email protected] > > And Dovecot thinks you're opening "u...@example"'s "com.INBOX" mailbox. > So you can't really use domains with '.' separator. One solution would > be to use another separator, like '/'. Another would be to create > separate namespaces for each domain, like: > > namespace shared { > prefix = shared.example_com. > location = > maildir:/home/vpopmail/domains/example.com/%%n/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%[email protected] > } >
