[Dovecot] vpopmail and shared mailbox

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 10:46 -0700, David Fuchs wrote:
> namespace shared {
>   separator = .
>   prefix = shared.%%u.
>   location =
> maildir:/home/vpopmail/domains/%%d/%%n/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u
>   subscriptions = no
>   list = yes
> }
..
> however, when I connect to the server, the client does not see the "shared"
> namespace. also, dovecot seems to be creating empty shared-mailboxes.db in
> /home/vpopmail/domains/example/ (missing .com!).

The problem is hierarchy separator. If you have user at example.com, the
mailbox looks like:

shared.user at example.com.INBOX

And Dovecot thinks you're opening "user at example"'s "com.INBOX" mailbox.
So you can't really use domains with '.' separator. One solution would
be to use another separator, like '/'. Another would be to create
separate namespaces for each domain, like:

namespace shared {
  prefix = shared.example_com.
  location = maildir:/home/vpopmail/domains/example.com/%%n/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%n at example.com
}

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