[Dovecot] Maildir structure question

Nicolas KOWALSKI nicolas.kowalski at gmail.com
Fri Feb 6 12:15:03 EET 2009


Hello,

About the INBOX location when using maildir, in the wiki, 
http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir, I can read:

"
Directory Structure

~/Maildir/new, ~/Maildir/cur and ~/Maildir/tmp directories contain 
the messages for INBOX. The tmp directory is used during delivery, new 
messages arrive in new and read shall be moved to cur by the clients. 
"


But in my Maildir, I see this:

niko at petole:~$ ls -la Maildir/
total 144
drwxr-xr-x 35 niko niko 4096 2009-02-06 08:37 .
drwxr-xr-x 25 niko niko 4096 2009-02-06 10:26 ..
drwxr-xr-x  5 niko niko 4096 2009-02-06 09:16 .INBOX
...


There are no 'cur', 'new' and 'tmp' directories in ~/Maildir, as written 
in the wiki, but instead this .INBOX directory which contains these 
'cur', 'new' and 'tmp'.

Is this expected ? Thanks.


My configuration:

petole:~# dovecot -n
# 1.1.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.28.3 i686 Debian 4.0
ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/petole.demisel.net.pem
ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/petole.demisel.net.pem
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir
namespace:
  type: private
  separator: /
  list: yes
  subscriptions: yes
auth default:
  passdb:
    driver: pam
  userdb:
    driver: passwd
  socket:
    type: listen
    master:
      path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
      mode: 384


-- 
Nicolas


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