On 1.11.2013, at 18.26, Marcio Merlone <marcio.merl...@a1.ind.br> wrote:
> I run a legacy mailserver that i had replaced courier-imap for dovecot 1.2. > Everything is fine except for shared namespace. Maildir structure has been > created using dot '.' as folder separator. It happens that all our users are > created as name.surname as default. So when I want to select a shared folder, > MUA end up with the following IMAP command: > > select shared.jhon.doe.folder.subfolder > > Obviously I took ages to figure why it won't work since it takes 'doe' as a > folder and not a username part. When sharing a folder from 'sales' user, for > example, it works fine. What do you suggest to make shared folders work for > all without rebuilding hundreds of maildirs to change folder separator from > '.' to '/‘? The only other solution would be to translate the username to not contain dots, so for example the mailbox name would become shared.john_doe.folder.subfolder. But this can’t currently be done only for shared mailboxes, you’d have to do it globally with e.g.: auth_username_translate = ._ This would affect %u and %n in your settings also, so some paths would change.
