I'm trying to set up a Public mailbox, but when I try to subscribe to it in
Thunderbird, nothing happens: it doesn't appear as a folder, and when I go back to
the Subscribe window, it is unchecked again.
I use postfix local dlivery, which created a Maildir when a mail arrived for this
mailbox: /home/others/sharedmail/Maildir/{cur,new,tmp}
(sharedmail is a system user so that Postfix can deliver the mail; it doesn't have a
login shell or a password)
To make sure it is not a simple filesystem permissions problem, I did "chmod -R a+rwX
Maildir/"
This is my current config ( I tried to keep it short by leaving only what might be
relevant ):
# dovecot -n
# 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 x86_64 Debian 7.9
...
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
namespace {
list = yes
location = maildir:/home/others/sharedmail/Maildir
prefix = Public.
separator = .
subscriptions = no
type = public
}
namespace inbox {
inbox = yes
location =
mailbox Drafts {
special_use = \Drafts
}
mailbox ...
...
}
prefix =
separator = .
}
passdb {
driver = pam
}
plugin {
sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve
sieve_dir = ~/sieve
}
protocols = " imap"
service auth {
unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
group = postfix
mode = 0660
user = postfix
}
}
userdb {
driver = passwd
}
Also, I'm not sure about the difference between type=public and type=shared. But
anyway, I tried both with the same result.
