Cannot subscribe to Public mailbox

2016-09-02 Thread MI
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:

Re: Cannot subscribe to Public mailbox

2016-09-04 Thread MI
Some progress was achieved by using symlinks to make the Maildir a subdirectory of the public namespace location: mkdir /home/others/sharedmail/public-mails ln -si /home/others/sharedmail/Maildir/ /home/others/sharedmail/public-mails/.Public and namespace { list = yes

Can I delete duplicate messages under Maildir on the server?

2024-09-05 Thread MI via dovecot
After a client misconfiguration, many messages have been deleted. I restored them from backups, but now there are many duplicates. I can identify them on the server, and delete them. But do I need to also delete the dovecot.index files and/or other dovecot* files in the affected folders, or wi