[Dovecot] Multiple mailboxes per user

[Patrick Ben Koetter]

* spam at wilysloth.com <spam at wilysloth.com>:
> My users currently have mail delivered to mulitple MailDir locations via 
> procmail.
>
> ~/mail/inbox/
> ~/mail/graph/
> ~/mail/spam/

Think like this:

~/mail/inbox/
~/mail/inbox/graph/
~/mail/inbox/spam/

> I would like all these mailboxes to be exported via dovecot IMAP and  
> appear as folders. However, I can't anything beyond the INBOX working.  

graph/ and spam/ will show up as subfolders of the users mailbox.

p at rick




> My approach is via 'namespaces'.
>
> My config file is changed thusly:
> $ sudo dovecot -n
> # 1.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
> login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
> login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
> mail_privileged_group: mail
> mail_location: maildir:~/mail/inbox
> namespace:
>   type: private
>   inbox: yes
> namespace:
>   type: private
>   prefix: graph
>   location: maildir:~/mail/graph
> namespace:
>   type: private
>   prefix: spam
>   location: maildir:~/mail/spam
> auth default:
>   passdb:
>     driver: pam
>   userdb:
>     driver: passwd
>
> I try connecting with mutt and I can see the mails in 'inbox' just fine. 
> I can also see (in the mutt browser) 'graph' and 'spam' just fine too:
>
> y:Exit  c:Chdir  m:Mask  ?:Help
>  1     IMAP                                  INBOX
>  2     IMAP                                  graph.
>  3     IMAP                                  spam.
>
> However, selecting 'graph' I see:
>
> y:Exit  c:Chdir  m:Mask  ?:Help
>  1     IMAP                                  ../
>
>
> ...I would have expected it to open the 'graph' MailDir mailbox and  
> display the mail.
>
> I try connecting directly using 'mutt -f imaps://user@computer/graph'
> and I see 'Invalid mailbox name'.
>
> telnet-ing in:
> $ nc localhost 143
> * OK Dovecot ready.
> a1 login user password
> a1 OK Logged in.
> c1 list "" *
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX"
> * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "." "graph"
> * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "." "spam"
> c1 OK List completed.
> a100 logout
> * BYE Logging out
> a100 OK Logout completed.
>
> The logs only show:
> Oct 13 10:44:44 machine dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<user>,  
> method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.1.1, lip=127.0.1.1, TLS
> Oct 13 10:44:46 machine dovecot: IMAP(user): Disconnected: Logged out
>
> Any ideas where I am going wrong? Outlook Express also lists the 'graph' 
> and 'spam' folder but won't show their contents.
>
> WS
>
>
>

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