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On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 21:45 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 12:27 -0500, <A HREF="mailto:poohba@blkpoohba.dyndns.org">poohba@blkpoohba.dyndns.org</A> wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> At one point I was just using what was under ~/mail now I have:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> ~/mail</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> ~/mail/fedora</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> ~/mail/trash</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">..</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> ~/mail/.imap/fedora</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> ~/mail/.imap/fedora/.imap.index</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> ~/mail/.imap/fedora/.imap.index.tree</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">..</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> These are not all the files but just the most recently touched files. Can </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I not just have imap view and use the ~/mail files? Is this normal? </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">The ~/mail/.imap/ directory is for Dovecot's indexes. If you want to</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">place them in different directory, you can do it with eg.:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail:INDEX=%h/mail-indexes</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Or you can just forget that they're there. Dovecot doesn't show them to</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">clients.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Can I have it set up to use the maildir files that are already there? It used </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> to work that way but I guess that is with the other imap server that came </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> with fc1.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I'm not really sure what you're asking. ~/mail typically contains only</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">mboxes, so are you talking about something else? If not, why do you have</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">both mboxes and maildirs?</FONT>
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In ~/mail there are files that are actually mail directories. I don't know what they are called but that is the way it has been since RH5.3 until FC1. This problem has only been since FC1.
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Some patched UW-IMAPs are capable of handling mixed mbox/maildir</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">directories, Dovecot isn't yet.</FONT>
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