[Dovecot] UW-IMAP .imaprc - does dovecot use this file in any way

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 13:03 -0500, Paul Griffith wrote:

>    We are in the process of settings up a test server to help us test 
> moving from UW-IMAP to Dovecot. I didn't see any reference to the 
> UW-IMAP .imaprc file, does Dovecot just ignore this file.

Dovecot doesn't read that file. (Also AFAIK neither does unpatched
UW-IMAP.)

> cat .imaprc
> I accept the risk
> set mail-subdirectory mail

You can do the same thing by setting in dovecot.conf:

mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

Of course if some users don't use the ~/mail subdirectory you can get
into more trouble.

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