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

John Gateley dovecot at jfoo.net
Sat Jun 30 02:20:43 EEST 2007


On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:50:46 +0300
Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 14:41 -0500, John Gateley wrote:
> > 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|...
> 
> How about a post-login script like http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation
> explains?

I didn't read carefully enough - that looks like it does the job. Thanks.
I still think if you have a default search order, a variable controlling
that would be kind of cool...

j


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