[Dovecot] Maildir and folders not under INBOX

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 16:05 -0400, Oliver Schulze L. wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm planning to migrate from dovecot/mbox to dovecot/maildir both using 
> imap.
> 
> I have read that when using the Maildir storage format, all folders
> are stored under the INBOX. Is this true in dovecot too?

No. You can do that if you want to with namespaces, but Dovecot by
default doesn't force you to.

> I want to have a configuration like the current:
> - new mail is delivered in /var/mail/USER
> - user folders are in /home/USER/mail
> 
> I want to ask if this is posible in dovecot?
> 
> Maybe using a config like this:
> default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%u/Maildir:INBOX=/var/mail/%u/Maildir

Looks like that'd work. Except they go to "Maildir" and not "mail"
directory in home as you said :)

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