[Dovecot] Questions about dbox (sdbox?), mdbox

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sat Jul 17 21:03:39 EEST 2010


On 17.7.2010, at 4.46, Brandon Lamb wrote:

>> Ok I got all migrated over to dovecot2 configuration, and started to
>> dive into this converting business... one thing I immediately fell
>> into is that the wiki doesnt say anything about namespace issues. I
>> return maildir:~/maildir in my current setup via prefetch/sql, and I
>> got errors trying to do
>> 
>> dsync -u brandon at olypen.com mirror mdbox:~/mdbox

What errors did you get?

>> Do I need some special namespace configuation/setup?

No..

> I think I may have got it, I added the following to my 10-mail.conf
> 
> # maildir
> namespace {
>    type = private
>    separator = /
>    prefix =
> #   location = maildir:~/maildir
>    inbox = yes
>    hidden = no
> }
> 
> # mdbox
> namespace {
>    type = private
>    separator = /
>    prefix = "#mdbox/"
>    location = mdbox:~/mdbox
>    inbox = no
>    hidden = no
> }

This shouldn't be necessary.


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