[Dovecot] problem with subscriptions=no and changed separator ?

[Lutz Preßler]

Timo,

On Mi, 06 Okt 2010, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 17:06 +0200, Lutz Preßler wrote:
> > I have problems with subscriptions for the shared mailboxes:
> > SUBSCRIBE ^shared^user^box leads to entry
> >   shared^user^box
> > in ~/Maildir/subscriptions file. 
> 
> That is correct.
I thought that, too. But as reality is not consistent...
> 
> > All subscriptions for folders in
> > personal namespace use the "layout" separator (".") thought.
> > LSUB "" "*"  does not show the just subscribed folder,
> 
That's not fully correct. Within the same IMAP session, LSUB yields 
the correct output 
> Do you see any errors logged? Does LSUB output show anything about
> "shared"?
Oops.. Yes. I used a test configuration, but looked into the wrong
log file. Sorry for that.

Oct  6 18:06:26 host dovecot: auth: userdb(?): Username contains disallowed character: 0x2f
Oct  6 18:06:26 host dovecot: imap(testuser): Error: Namespace 'shared^user/box^': mkdir(/var/run/dovecot/user-not-found/user/box) failed: Permission denied (euid=1000(user) egid=1000(user) missing +w perm: /var/run/dovecot, euid is not dir owner)
Oct  6 18:06:26 host dovecot: auth: userdb(?): Username contains disallowed character: 0x2f
Oct  6 18:06:26 host dovecot: imap(testuser): Error: Namespace 'shared^user/box^': mkdir(/var/run/dovecot/user-not-found/user/box) failed: Permission denied (euid=1000(user) egid=1000(user) missing +w perm: /var/run/dovecot, euid is not dir owner)
Oct  6 18:06:26 host dovecot: imap(testuser): Warning: Subscriptions file /home/testuser/Maildir/subscriptions: Ignoring invalid entry: shared^user^box

Greetings,
  Lutz

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