I removed the INBOX. prefix, and things work like a charm now! (I actually didn't include the alias for compatibility, it's not necessary with thunderbird and rather seems to confuse it as it lists folders twice under "folder" and "Inbox/folder".)
thank you, Timo, for the excellent support and of course for dovecot! - Dave. On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Timo Sirainen<[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 12:41 -0700, David Fuchs wrote: >> I got one step further with this! now I see the shared namespace in the >> client. >> >> however, when I try to subscribe I get: >> >> Query: SUBSCRIBE "shared.someuser.INBOX" >> Reason Given: Unknown subscription namespace > > I guess your primary namespace has INBOX. prefix? You could decide to > either deprecate the INBOX. prefix and use it only for compatibility > with old clients: > > namespace private { > prefix = > inbox = yes > } > namespace private { > prefix = INBOX. > alias_for = > list = no > hidden = yes > } > > Or you could keep the INBOX. as the primary namespace and use a kludgy > workaround to catch the subscriptions: > > namespace private { > prefix = > alias_for = INBOX. > list = no > hidden = yes > } > >
