[Dovecot] INBOX as either mbox or Maildir

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Jan 22 12:06:13 EET 2006


On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 14:47 +0200, Tom Alsberg wrote:
> Would it be possible to set Dovecot to either automatically detect 
> whether /var/mail/<username> is a Maildir or mbox (which relates to my 
> interest in mixing maildirs and mboxes in one namespace which I have 
> written about several months ago) or 

I think this would work:

default_mail_env = /var/mail/%u

> to configure several options for INBOX with the first one found used?

That could maybe be done with creating multiple namespaces and setting
some kind of "ignore" option to them so they're not required to exist.
This doesn't work yet, but someone else also wanted this..

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