[Dovecot] imapc - different settings for different namespaces

[Timo Sirainen]

On 20 Mar 2015, at 12:40, Gedalya <gedalya at gedalya.net> wrote:
> 
> On 05/31/2013 04:21 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> Originally I was planning on allowing all kinds of mail settings inside namespace {}, including imapc_* settings. But that's a bit difficult to implement (although I think it will happen some day). So for now I was thinking:
>> 
>> imapc foo {
>>   host = imap.foo.com
>>   master_user = foomaster
>>   password = foopass
>> }
>> 
>> imapc bar {
>>   host = imap.bar.com
>>   ...
>> }
>> 
>> namespace {
>>   prefix = foo/
>>   location = imapc:foo
>> }
>> namespace {
>>   prefix = bar/
>>   location = imapc:bar
>> }
>> 
>> So basically if the path after imapc isn't absolute (/path or ~/path), then treat the path as the imapc section name and use its settings.
>> 
>> Anyone have any improvement suggestions? I was planning on adding this to v2.2.3. I'm not sure if the section names should be "imapc" or something else (e.g. imap_remote {}).
>> 
> 
> What ever happened with this? Doesn't look like it was committed. This looks like a cool idea. I was just thinking about pulling multiple external IMAP accounts under a single dovecot account and I ran into this.

I didn't need it after all for the project where it first seemed to be necessary. Attached the code that I wrote so far, which I think allows you to configure such imapc {} blocks, but there's no code to actually use them.

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