[Dovecot] Glued-together private namespaces

[Mark Moseley]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 16:04 -0800, Mark Moseley wrote:
>> > The gotcha is that you have two completely independent quotas with
>> > independent usage/limits for the INBOX and Archive namespaces. If that
>> > is what you want, it should all be fine.
>>
>> Nope, that's totally fine. The idea is to put Archive on cheaper
>> (slower) storage and then grant more generous quotas there to make it
>> worth their while to use, without slowing down their Inbox. Another
>> application would be to put their Spam in another namespace (for
>> people who choose to have it put in a separate folder) with a lower
>> quota, again to offload it onto cheaper storage, since hardly anyone
>> actually looks at it.
>
> Should be fine then.
>
>> Or is this something that I could be doing more transparently in 2.1 with imapc?
>
> I don't really see how that could help.

Ah, bummer. I thought maybe 2.1 could proxy to a separate folder or
namespace (but I've also barely had a chance to look at it), like so
certain folders would be grabbed from a proxy. Haven't really thought
that through though :)