Dovecot seems to open extra namespaces

Thorsten Hater thorsten.hater at gmail.com
Wed Nov 30 07:57:52 UTC 2016


Thanks for the clarification, this makes sense now.

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> On 29 Nov 2016, at 10.50, Thorsten Hater <thorsten.hater at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am slightly confused by the following log entries
> >
> > ...: imap(...): Debug: Namespace inbox: type=private, prefix=INBOX.,
> sep=.,
> > inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes
> location=maildir:~/Maildir
> > ...: imap(...): Debug: maildir++: root=~/Maildir, index=, indexpvt=,
> > control=, inbox=~/Maildir, alt=
>
> You have a prefix=INBOX. configured.
>
> > ...: imap(...): Debug: Namespace : type=private, prefix=, sep=, inbox=no,
> > hidden=yes, list=no, subscriptions=no location=fail::LAYOUT=none
> > ...: imap(...): Debug: none: root=, index=, indexpvt=, control=, inbox=,
> > alt=
>
> Since you didn't configure an empty-prefix namespace, Dovecot autocreates
> one for you. It's not actually accessible. Only used for making Dovecot's
> internal life easier and provide errors if you try to access it.
>
>


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