[Dovecot] vpopmail and shared mailbox

[Timo Sirainen]

Do you want users to be able to share mailboxes across different
domains?

On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 11:16 -0700, David Fuchs wrote:
> thanks for the quick reply!
> 
> tried to create a shared namespace shared.example_com. still no
> success, unfortunately -
> 
> >  location = maildir:/home/vpopmail/domains/example.com/%%n/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%n at example.com
> 
> now it's creating an empty
> /home/vpopmail/domains/example.com/%n/Maildir/dovecot-acl-list :(
> 
> - Dave.
> 
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> >
> > 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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