[Dovecot] Maildir handling

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 17:13 +0100, Sascha Holzleiter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we just setup a new mailserver for our company with some sieve filtering
> in place. Everything works as expected but there is one flaw.
> We setup the per user sieve filters in files within the users mailbox
> maildir as follows:
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 mail mail      21 Jan 13 17:20 .dovecot.sieve ->
> sieve/phpscript.sieve
> 
> This link is actually picked up by dovecot and being announced as an
> IMAP folder which gives an error in certain MUAs as they try to access
> it. 
> 
> Is there a way to let dovecot check if the link is really a maildir, so
> lets say a directory with a maildirfolder file within it? Or just to
> hide this link from dovecot so its not advertised as an IMAP folder?

This is one reason why home directory shouldn't be the same as mail
directory. http://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers#homedirs

You can maybe work around this by setting maildir_stat_dirs=yes,
although I'm not sure if it works with symlinks.

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