IMAP mailbox subscription in Sogo

kingfisher

Does anybody know how to manage IMAP subscription of mailboxes within Sogo? This feature should be there, but I cannot find it! 🤔

esackbauer

Preferences - Mail, then tab “IMAP accounts” on the right you click on “NEW MAIL ACCOUNT”.

kingfisher

Thank you! My question is not about a new IMAP account, but about IMAP folder subscriptions.

esackbauer

If you share mailbox folders within SOGo, you should see them also with IMAP.

kingfisher

Every IMAP MUA has a function to switch IMAP folder subscriptions on and off. With Roundcube, for example, it is a checkbox in the settings for all folders to which a user has access rights. With the checkbox, the user can subscribe or unsubscribe to the folder, which results in the folder being visible or not.

nso

kingfisher in sogo the “subscribe” appear only when something is shared

esackbauer

SOGo works differently, it has a different philosophy as it is groupware, and not only a web frontend for an IMAP Server.
Maybe this helps:
https://community.mailcow.email/d/1949-inexplicable-creation-of-archive-folder/8

kingfisher

Thank you guys for your efforts :-) I will try to understand the way Sogo works. Currently I can’t get my head around why groupware shouldn’t allow me to select the mailboxes I want to see.

And I don’t see the option “S’abonner” or subscribe in this menu. I am on Mailcow nightly because we are testing SSO.

esackbauer

kingfisher I can’t get my head around why groupware shouldn’t allow me to select the mailboxes I want to see.

Now you are talking about mailboxes again, before it was folders? I am confused.

nso

kingfisher
to be clear, in sogo all your folder should appear by default
the subscribe option only appear when an other user shared a folder
have you modified acl ?

kingfisher

nso

Yes we use extra.conf to conduct public folder and global acl to maintain permissions.

# Excerpt extra.conf
plugin {
  # Global ACL
  acl = vfile:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-acl-global.conf
}
namespace {
  type = public
  separator = /
  list = yes
  prefix = Admin/
  location = maildir:/var/vmail/public/%d/admin:LAYOUT=fs:INDEXPVT=~/public/%d/admin
  subscriptions = yes
  hidden = no
  list = children
  mailbox "admin" {
    auto = subscribe
  }
}

# Excerpt dovecot-acl-global.conf
Admin/* user=user1@example.com lrwstipekxa
Admin/* user=user2@example.com lrwstipekxa

[unknown] This works as the public folder appears only if user is having permissions.

This works as the public folder appears only if user is having permissions.

nso

kingfisher
https://docs.mailcow.email/manual-guides/Dovecot/u_e-dovecot-public_folder/#allow-authenticated-users-access-to-the-whole-public-namespace

kingfisher

nso Thank you, I know this page - something special in it which I have overseen?

nso

Please be clear with your issue:

you shared a folder and cannot access it from the other account ?
you want to access another mailbox from sogo panel ?

kingfisher

I want to be able to subscribe/unsubscribe to a mailbox/folder which is propagated from Dovecot within Sogo. This is part of https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9051#name-subscribe-command

nso

as @esackbauer said sogo works differently

kingfisher

Yes, I understand now. That’s a bit of a shame. We don’t need the groupware function. My hope was that we could still use Sogo as MUA because it is nicely integrated into Mailcow. Especially with the SSO feature which we test currently.

nso

kingfisher
https://www.sogo.nu/files/docs/SOGoInstallationGuide.html#:~:text=SOGoMailShowSubscribedFoldersOnly,NO%20when%20unset.

esackbauer

You should consider a look at Mailu which is similar but uses Roundcube by default.

kingfisher

nso We worked on it extensively, but whenever things got interesting, there was no way to adjust it :-)

[unknown] Thank you, saw this also month ago. Will dive into it.

[unknown]
Thank you, saw this also month ago. Will dive into it.