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

Eric K Germann ekgermann at cctec.com
Sat Nov 1 17:29:49 EDT 2014


 

Genius! 

That was it. Thanks. Fixed my sieve issue too! 

EKG 

On 2014-11-01 16:11, Bron Gondwana wrote: 

> 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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