[Dovecot] Mailbox location suggestion (was Re: mbox vs maildir)

[John Gateley]

A suggestion: along with mail_location, create a mail_directories
variable that contains the search order, so that it can be specified.
It would default to something like
mail_directories = maildir:~/Maildir|mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u|...

I could use this. On one system I manage, I've converted a couple
of us to Maildirs, but the rest of the users are still on mbox
in a non-standard place: mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=~/mbox
I don't want to do anything special, because eventually all
the users will be switched to Maildirs, but in the meantime
it would be nice to be able to use Dovecot for all of them
without doing a "ln -s ~user/mbox ~user/Mail/inbox" for each
of them.

j

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:39:11 -0500
John Gateley <dovecot at jfoo.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:14:42 -0700
> Don Russell <russell.don at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Can Dovecot handle mbox for some users and maildir for others?
> 
> Yes, if you don't have the mail_location variable set,
> then Dovecot will look in
> ~/Maildir
> /var/mail/username
> ~/mail
> ~/Mail
> in that order.
> 
> See http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation
> 
> j