[Dovecot] how to "hide" mailbox from the IMAP clients

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 18:58 +0400, Kostik wrote:
> Yes, you're right! For legacy reasons, my clients have their mailboxes
> directly in their homedir. That not problem, because they have only imap
> access to that server. But I am interested to hide some "non-mail" folders.
> 
> mailbox_location re-design is not possible right now. :(

How about redesign for the Sieve script location? You could use for
example:

sieve_dir = /var/sieve/%u/scripts/
sieve = /var/sieve/%u/active

or something. Anyway, are you using mbox or maildir? With maildir you
could also do something else, but with mbox there's really no way to
hide files.
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