[Dovecot] Mixing MBOX and MAILDIR

Romer Ventura rventura at h-st.com
Mon Dec 8 22:31:25 EET 2008


This did it:
namespace private {
  separator = /
  hidden = no
  prefix = "#ArchiveMail/"
  location = mbox:/home/vmail/mboxmail:INBOX=/home/vmail/mboxmail/%Ln
}

Thanks

> Hello,
> 
>     I have about 100 mboxes, a few with a lot of mails and others with a few
> mails. I have configured dovecot to use maildir as mail format, but I would
> like to give users the ability to access their old email located in their
> old mbox. So all the new mail would be in the ~/Maildir/ and their old or
> archived email in /home/vmail/mboxmail/%Ln
> 
>     How can I add a namespace to achieve my goal...?
> namespace private {
>   separator = /
>   hidden = yes
>   prefix = "#mbox/"
>   location = mbox:/home/vmail/mboxmail/%Ln/
> }
>  
>     Like that...?
> 
> Thanks for any inputs...





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