[Dovecot] last hope... public namespace and directory structure

[Daniel Fischer]

hello,

 

I would like to migrate to dovecot, but I have a problem with a public
namespace declaration:

# 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

# OS: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 x86_64 Debian wheezy/sid

 

And here are the relevant parts from the configuration:

 

namespace {

… 

  location = maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/%d/public

  prefix = Public.

  separator = . 

  type = public

}

namespace inbox {

…  

  prefix =

  separator = .

  subscriptions = yes

  type = private

}

 

I assume that all folders under ./public/ are public mailboxes. The public
folder itself is not a  maildir, but contains 

the team mailboxes i.e.

./public/.sales/                

./public/.service/

./public/.purchase/

 

The file passwd for those 3 samples looks like this:

sales@$DOMAIN::5000:5000::/var/mail/vhosts/$DOMAIN/public/.sales 

service@$DOMAIN::5000:5000::/var/mail/vhosts/$DOMAIN/public/.service

purchase@$DOMAIN::5000:5000::/var/mail/vhosts/$DOMAIN/public/.purchase

Note: All other users have mail_location /var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n

 

Now a have the following problem: If  I login in as user sales and create a
folder foo and in there a folder bar. 

The directory structure is:

./public/. sales /.foo and /public/. sales /.foo.bar

that’s exactly what I´m expect.

Now I logon as “normal” user. I can see the namespace Public with the sales
mailbox …but no subfolder foo or foo.bar. 

Now I create also the folders foo and in there bar, but the result is … to
me unexpected ;-):

./public/. sales

./public/. sales.foo

./public/. sales.foo.bar

 

Looking forward to your comment,

 

Daniel