Virtual folder auto creation

Sami Ketola Sami.Ketola at Open-Xchange.com
Fri Nov 22 09:17:06 EET 2019



> On 22 Nov 2019, at 0.03, sergio via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:
> 
> On 21/11/2019 10:59, Sami Ketola via dovecot wrote:
> 
> 
>> Return the virtual folder settings from userdb for only the selected users.
>> Or return hidden = yes variable for those that you wish not to see it.
> 
> Could you give more details how to do this?

doveconf -S | grep namespace

and then return the chosen settings from userdb.

> 
> 
>> Virtual folder really does not exist. It is memory only and is generated on
>> each login.
> 
> It is not true. Virtual folder really exists (for all users):
> # ls -d /var/mail/user/mailboxes/virtual
> /var/mail/user/mailboxes/virtual/
> 
> While some MUAs (k9, tb, roundcube) don't show it (may be as empty)
> some other (apple ios, com.android.mail) shows it. And it annoys that users.

It is true. You only have chosen to put your virtual folder settings in the users mail directory for some reason.

Sami



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