Enabling altnamespace and IMAP doesn't look different. Should it?

[Bron Gondwana]

Is your username in 'admins' in imapd.conf? Admin users are really
special, and we don't recommend using them for real users who get email.

Bron.


On Sat, Nov 1, 2014, at 12:11 PM, Eric K Germann wrote:
> I recently upgraded my server from 2.2 to the
> cyrus-imapd-2.4.17-caldav-beta10 release built from source.


> One of the goals is to share "Notes" between various iDevices and this
> requires a "Notes" folder at the root level, necessitating
> "altnamespace=yes"


> I had to convert my sieve scripts over (deleting INBOX. as it was
> throwing errors), so I know at least part of the installation is using
> the altnamespace.


> What got me looking is when I use the managesieve plugin to Roundcube,
> it creates new rules (that don't work) with folder names of
> "INBOX.xxx". I dug around and nowhere in their source is there a
> namespace or root setting, so I went back to the IMAP protocol.


> With "altnamespace:yes", when I login and list folders, I get:


> a1 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ ID ENABLE ACL RIGHTS=kxte QUOTA
> MAILBOX-REFERRALS NAMESPACE UIDPLUS NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT CHILDREN
> MULTIAPPEND BINARY CATENATE CONDSTORE ESEARCH SORT SORT=MODSEQ
> SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES ANNOTATEMORE
> LIST-EXTENDED WITHIN QRESYNC SCAN XLIST X-REPLICATION URLAUTH
> URLAUTH=BINARY LOGINDISABLED COMPRESS=DEFLATE IDLE] User logged in >


> a2 list "" *
> * LIST (\HasChildren) "." INBOX
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.0 Junk - Missed"
> * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.0 Junk - Wrong"

> NAMESPACE is also identical between them.


> * NAMESPACE (("INBOX." ".")) (("user." ".")) (("" "."))


> Ditto for when I start it with altnamespace set to no.


> From other examples on Google, it would seem "INBOX." shouldn't be
> there with it enabled.


> That would explain why Roundcube generates the sieve rules with INBOX
> in the folder names.


> What am I missing? Did I forget to do something after I turned it on?


> Really confused.


> Thanks for any assistance!


> EKG


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