[Dovecot] shared mailboxes in 1.2 question

Robert Schetterer robert at schetterer.org
Mon Oct 6 13:09:41 EEST 2008


Timo Sirainen schrieb:
> On Oct 6, 2008, at 3:32 AM, Robert Schetterer wrote:
> 
>> namespace shared {
>>  separator = /
>>  # %%u gets expanded to the remote user. Instead of %%u you can
>>  # also use %%n and %%d.
>>  prefix = "shared/"
>>  location =
>> maildir:/usr/local/virtual/%d:CONTROL=/usr/local/virtual/%d:INDEX=/usr/local/virtual/%d
>>
> 
> %d gets expanded immediately when user logs in. So if your user is
> user at domain, this gets expanded to:
> 
> maildir:/usr/local/virtual/domain:CONTROL=..etc..
> 
> With %%d it would expand to the destination user's domain, but I don't
> think you want that either. If your users' mailboxes are in
> /usr/local/virtual/%d/%n and you want them to be accessed, you'll need
> to use /usr/local/virtual/%%d/%%n as the path.
> 
>> but instead only shared is shown in thunderbird
> 
> Unless you manually subscribe to the shared mailboxes, they're not
> visible to clients. Mailbox listing isn't supported currently.
> 
Hi Timo,
understand manually subscribe is a "must have" currently
i will test this
will you change this up to stable 1.2 ?

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MfG Robert Schetterer

Germany/Munich/Bavaria


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