Public Mail folder

[Stefan Nitz]

Hi,

Am Dienstag, 8. Februar 2005 23:34 schrieb Craig White:
> On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 20:30 +0100, Stefan Nitz wrote:
> > Dear listeners,
> >
> > Am Dienstag, 8. Februar 2005 18:17 schrieb Craig White:
> > > Is it possible to set up a public mail folder with cyrus?
> > >
> > > Can you direct me to information on setting it up?
> >
> > Login as administrative user (f.e.):
> > cyradm --user admin-user --auth login hostname
> > Create a folder:
> > hostname> cm public
> > List the Access control list for this Mailbox
> > hostname> lam public
> > anyone lrs
> >
> > Try ? to see commands to change/give the rights.
>
> ----
> OK - I got that now, but when I use a mail client i.e. evolution and
> look at 'subscribe to folders' - It doesn't appear.
>
> I tried editing by hand my
> /var/lib/imap/user/c/craig.sub
> by inserting a line
> public
> at the top but when I fired up evolution again, it neither displayed the
> 'public' folder nor did it appear in the list of 'subscribe to folders'
> again.
>
> ;-(
You shouldnt create folders like yuo do. AFAIK They've to be in the mailbox.db 
too. Use cyradm or the Perl-Modules. I believe you've to reconstruct the mb 
now.
> I'm still missing one key piece of info...
> Craig
In my mail client (KMail) i saw the new folder after a resync with the server.
I found that if you're using virtual domains you've to create

public at virtual.domain

to see it with your client.


Luck Stefan
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