Hello, please excuse my asking a question about simple configuration rather than something about a suspected bug or other detailed enquiry.
I've set up dovecot (1.0.13, from http://www.blastwave.org) and when Thunderbird connects to it, all is well and I see folders as expected. When MacOS X mail connects however, it sees my home directory on the dovecot machine, not the mail directory. Now setting-aside the obvious rant about why MacOS has to be gratuitously different *again*, I would like to configure dovecot not to serve my home directory. I keeping saying I/my as this is just a personal set-up at home.
This IMAP stuff is a bit involved but I thought namespaces would be the answer but it seems not. That is, I have
namespace private { location = /var/marchive/%u inbox = yes }
but even this still allows Mac Mail to see the home directory. What else should I do to stop dovecot serving my home directory ? I realise that there is also a problem with the client, that Mac Mail is *asking for* my home directory rather than the mail folder, but that's another problem, not for this list.
Thanks in expectation.