[Dovecot] Problem with namespaces

[Tim Bishop]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 06:03:41PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 15:51 +0100, Tim Bishop wrote:
> > The ~/Mail folder contains just two folders. The config given to imapd
> > is as follows:
> > 
> > MAIL=mbox:/home/cut/jru2/Mail:INBOX=/home/cut/jru2/.mail:INDEX=/var/state/dovecot-indexes/jru2
> > NAMESPACE_1=mbox:/home/cut/jru2/Mail:INBOX=/home/cut/jru2/.mail:INDEX=/var/state/dovecot-indexes/jru2
> > NAMESPACE_1_INBOX=1
> ..
> 
> Why do you set the environment manually? "dovecot --exec-mail imap"
> isn't enough?

I'm using the post-login scripting approach to detect location of mbox
directories and whether the user has maildir instead.

> > NAMESPACE_2_LIST=0
> > NAMESPACE_2_SUBSCRIPTIONS=0
> 
> These don't do what you think they do. Boolean settings are true as long
> as the environment exists, Dovecot doesn't even look at its value.

Ah! Thanks for the tip :-)

Tim.

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