With steps above, if you login to webmail (or other IMAP client) as any mail If you create them manually, it does become a selectable var/mail/public/ folder, because the Public/ namespace isn't a There are no cur/, new/ or tmp/ directories directly under the IMAP folder by Dovecot with iRedMail default settings. All folders with a prefixed dot will be considered as an There's a dot in folder name while creating it, it's. mkdir -p /var/vmail/public/.TestFolderĬhown -R vmail:vmail /var/vmail/public/.TestFolderĬhmod -R 0700 /var/vmail/public/.TestFolder Now let's create required folder and our first shared folder TestFolder. Please make sure the public folder is owned by user/group vmail:vmail.With above setting, it uses /var/vmail/public as public folder.Restarting Dovecot service is required after changed its config file. Please also remove the comment mark in below line in nf: acl_anyone = allow If you want to share the public folder to all users hosted on same server, Location = maildir:/var/vmail/public/:CONTROL=~/Maildir/public:INDEX=~/Maildir/public Remove comment marks ( #) for above namespace block, like below: # Public mailboxes. # Allow users to subscribe to the public folders. # location = maildir:/var/vmail/public/:CONTROL=~/Maildir/public:INDEX=~/Maildir/public # CONTROL=: Mark this public folder as read-only mailbox # Refer to Dovecot wiki page for more details: Enable public folder in Dovecotįind sample settings like below in Dovecot config file /etc/dovecot/nf: # Public mailboxes. In this tutorial, we will show you how to share a public folder named TestFolder. set proper ACL rules to control the access.choose a preferred directory as public folder.

IRedMail has setting for public folder in /etc/dovecot/nf,

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