[Dovecot] index location

[Dave Brenner]

On 1/28/2010 12:59 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> The idea is that you should make everything work with the default
> prefix="" namespace and mail_location=mbox:~/mail. So your subscriptions
> should have e.g. "Spam" without prefix. Your autocreate rules should
> have "Spam" without prefix. After all that works properly, you create
> the compatibility namespaces that are used only by the clients that have
> already explicitly configured them.

That did the trick.  Now all my indexes are in 
/var/dovecot/indexes/%u/.imap (no more mail subdirectory) and while 
users can use ~/mail as their root path, they can't see it, or anything 
above it, in their folder tree.  Perfect!

The only unexpected thing I ran into is that the full client root path 
is still required for the expire and quota plugins.  So, if some clients 
use a blank root, while others use ~/mail, ~someuser/mail or mail/, you 
have to allow for all of them or you won't necessarily get a match 
(expire timestamps are not added to db; quota "ignores" are not 
processed).  A few extra quota rules and expire folders took care of the 
problem.  I can live with this config.  :-)

Thank you for the assistance.

Dave