[Dovecot] Maildir with LAYOUT=fs not working

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue May 26 10:07:19 EEST 2009


On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 23:41 -0700, Rich Wales wrote:
> The above works perfectly when I'm talking to my Cyrus server.
> However, when I tried the same thing with Dovecot, I got a folder
> named "user.stanford.2009" in the "stanford" account's Maildir,
> and then another folder named "user.stanford.2009.2009-05" (again,
> in the Maildir -- NOT nested in the "user.stanford.2009" folder)
> -- and the message was stored in the "user.stanford.2009.2009-05"
> folder.

If you want to use '.' as hierarchy separator, tell it to Dovecot by
creating a namespace with "separator = .". Otherwise Dovecot uses the
default '/' separator.

> I suppose I actually have two issues here -- the lack of folder
> nesting (even with LAYOUT=fs), and also Dovecot's failure to
> recognize a "user.XXX." prefix on a mailbox name as designating
> user XXX's inbox (something that seems to work fine on Cyrus).

Yes, there's no special code for user.XXX. prefix. You can again create
a namespace with "prefix=user.%u."

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