[Dovecot] Hello, new to the list

[Vikram Goyal]

On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 11:28:27AM +0100, Anand Buddhdev wrote:
> Vikram Goyal wrote:
> 
> Hello Vikram,
> 
Hi,

> [snip]
> 
> > I wanted to access them through dovecot. I have tried namespaces etc
> > but have been unable to accomplish till now.
> 
> You've given a very vague description of your problem, and I don't think
> anyone can even begin to guess how to help you. You'll have to be more
> specific, as in: which version of Dovecot are you using, which mail client,
> and what exactly it is that you are unable to do with Dovecot.
> 

Dovecot's version is: dovecot-1.0-1.1.rc15.fc6

Sorry for being unclear. Heres's the basic setup:

I am using mutt. Fetchmail gets my mails which get distributed through
procmail to diff set of maildirs or mboxes. I am using sendmail to relay
the mails through gmail.

I wanted to see if I could configure dovecot to make my maildirs and
mboxes under ~/Mail/ ( as I had tried to show the Mail dir structure )
accessible through it. If I am able to do it then I would be able use
diff MUAs. Don't want to leave mutt but other MUAs are also on the list
of choices.

After reading wiki etc I believe namespaces can solve the problem.
Here's a snippet of my dovecot config.

namespace public {
        separator = /
        inbox = yes
        hidden = yes
        prefix = "#mbox/"
        location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=~/Maildir/.dovecotindexes/%d/%1n/%n
}
namespace public {
        separator = /
#        prefix =
#        location = maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/.dovecotindexes/%d/%1n/%n
#        hidden = yes
        prefix = "/"
        location = maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/.dovecotindexes/%d/%1n/%n
}
#namespace public {
#        separator = /
#        prefix =
#        location = maildir:~/Maildir/fedora-devel-list:INDEX=~/Maildir/.dovecotindexes/%d/%1n/%n
#}
#namespace public {
#        separator = /
#        prefix =
#        location = maildir:~/Maildir/inbox:INDEX=~/Maildir/.dovecotindexes/%d/%1n/%n
#}
#namespace public {
#        separator = /
#        prefix =
#        location = mbox:~/Maildir/newsletter:INDEX=~/Maildir/.dovecotindexes/%d/%1n/%n
#}

Here I have copied my original Mail folder to Maildir for dovecot and
experimentation.

I have simply copied it from diff sources and modified as I felt fit.
But I am not sure about it.
Here's a the output from telnet to dovecot:

[root at fc6host ~]# telnet localhost 143
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK Dovecot ready.
1 login vikram QeTuOAdGjL
1 OK Logged in.
2 LIST "" *
* LIST (\Unmarked) "/" "INBOX"
* LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" ""
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "/dovecotindexes"
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "/tmp"
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "/notifyme"
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "/backups"
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "/mailarchive"
2 OK List completed.
3 logout
* BYE Logging out
3 OK Logout completed.
Connection closed by foreign host.
[root at fc6host ~]#
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Please, let me know if more info is req.

Thanks!
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