[Dovecot] Mixed IMAP/POP3 environment: further informations

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 16:32 +0100, Denis Sbragion wrote:
> Hello Timo,
> 
> At 16.03 07/02/2006, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> >On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 18:57 +0100, Denis Sbragion wrote:
> >Umm.. If you haven't uncommented default_mail_env setting in
> >dovecot.conf, Dovecot tries to autodetect the location of the mailbox.
> ...
> 
> I did even more, adding a couple of explicit namespaces as explained in the 
> wiki:
> 
> namespace private {
>    separator = /
>    prefix =
>    location = maildir:%h/Maildir
> }
> namespace private {
>    separator = /
>    inbox = yes
>    prefix = "#mbox/"
>    location = mbox:%h/MBox:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
>    hidden = no
> }

I see, that's the difference then. Namespaces are currently supported
only with IMAP. POP3 still uses only default_mail_env.

> Without this of course Dovecot doesn't understand that the INBOX is in mbox 
> format and the user repository is instead in Maildir format. If I 
> undesrtand properly the comments in the sample configuration file 
> default_mail_env has no effect when such namespaces are set. BTW I also 
> tried with default_mail_env uncommented and set to empty to no avail.

Try setting it to mbox:%H/MBox:INBOX=/var/mail/%u and then pop3 should
find the mails too.

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