[Dovecot] Maildir folder hierarchy question

[Richard Leszczynski]

> did you get an answer?

No answer yet. I've had another look at the conf file
in the meantime and I still can't detect if specifying
:INBOX=... in the default_mail_env has any effect at
all.

Richard L
 
> Richard Leszczynski wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am trying to set up Dovecot to use a particular
> > maildir folder hierarchy and have a problem that
> > relates to the inbox.
> >
> > the folder hierarchy I want in /.../Maildir/ is:
> >
> > .inbox
> > 	cur
> > 	new
> > 	tmp
> > 	.imap.index.files-for-inbox
> > .sent-items
> > 	cur
> > 	new
> > 	tmp
> > 	.imap.index.files-for-sent-items
> >
> > however the hierarchy that dovecot gives me is
> >
> > .inbox (unused)
> > .INBOX
> > 	.imap.index.files-for-.INBOX
> > cur
> > new
> > tmp
> > .sent-items
> > 	cur
> > 	new
> > 	tmp
> > 	.imap.index.files-for-.sent-items
> >
> > I would like to have the (cur,new,tmp) folders
> > associated with the the .inbox placed in the
> .inbox
> > directory, not alongside it in the main maildir
> > directory. Dovecot appears to do this
> automatically
> > for other folders.  I'm not too bothered if the
> .inbox
> > folder has to be capitalised.
> >
> > Is this possible? I suspect from reading the
> Dovecot
> > Q&A that it may not be as the rootdir has special
> > significance with IMAP but I would like
> confirmation. 
> >
> > I've currently set my default_mail_env as:
> >
> > default_mail_env =
> >
>
maildir:/home/%u/mail/maildir:INBOX=/home/%u/mail/maildir/.inbox
> >
> >
> > which I thought should do accomplish what I want
> but
> > it has no apparent effect.
> >
> > I'm running SUSE 10.0 with Dovecot 0.99.14-5 (as
> > installed by Yast). KMail and Outlook are being
> used
> > to access Dovecot.
> >
> > Can anyone help?
> > thank you,
> > Richard L
> >
> >
> > 		
> >
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