On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 06:20:24PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 13:39 +0300, Tom Alsberg wrote:
(1) Is there an easy way to have Dovecot recognize subdirectories that do not begin with a dot as sub-hierarchies?
That causes namespace colliding which isn't such a good idea. For example Dovecot creates dovecot.* files, so you couldn't create a "dovecot" folder.
I realize that - there would be a few names you can't use... Still, I would like to do that...
(2) Is there a way to have the root folder map to a certain other mbox/maildir? I want a setup like this:
Nope, but it's planned sometimes after v1.0.
Cool...
I would love some further documentation regarding the working of Dovecot's folder lookup and how to achieve different IMAP folder organisations with dovecot. I have not yet looked deep enough into the sources to understand where most of the flexibiliy stems.
If you want to implement your 2) part, it needs quite a lot of changing to code.
Why? I wasn't talking in (2) about mixing mbox and maildir... All it requires, it seems, is for mailbox names not to begin with a dot, and to be able to map the IMAP root to a special specific folder...
Currently maildir is tied to Maildir++ directory layout and mbox to "normal" directory-layout. The mailbox listing/finding code would have to be separated from the actual mailbox handling code to have mixed mbox/maildirs inside one namespace.
Yeah, I know that... That's what's blocking the ability to mix mbox and maildir in one tree (we had a discussion once...). I thought you said you have this planned for somewhen after 1.0 as well...
Cheers, -- Tom
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