[Dovecot] Sub-Folder Query

[Kaan Kivilcim]

Thank you very much Curtis!

I was infact using mbox I just assumed the default mailbox format was
maildir. Fixed the problem by setting the default_mail_env option in
dovecot.conf.


Cheers,
Kaan Kivilcim

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Curtis Maloney [mailto:cmaloney at cardgate.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, 16 November 2005 1:12
> To: Kaan Kivilcim
> Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Sub-Folder Query
>
>
> Kaan Kivilcim wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a question in regards to folders/sub-folders with dovecot and
> > Microsoft Outlook 2000.
> >
> > When creating folders if you do not append a "/" to the end of
> the folder
> > name you cannot create sub-folders. Is there any solution/work around so
> > that users do not have to append a slash on the end of the folder name?
>
> Sounds to me like you're using mbox storage?  This is a
> limitation of mbox - a
> mailbox cannot contain folders, and folders cannot contain messages.
>
> This is not a limitation Maildir suffers from.
>
> > I would like to use dovecot for about a 50-user IMAP server
> however adding a
> > slash to the end of folder names won't go down well with the
> users who are
> > not the most computer literate people.
>
> I would recommend you try using Maildir.  If you don't want to
> mess with your
> LDA too much, Dovecot 1.0 can read your INBOX as mbox, and local
> folders as Maildir.
>
> I run Dovecot for approximately 25 users, and even Marketing has
> had no troubles :P
>
> --
> Curtis Maloney
> cmaloney at cardgate.net