Post Master wrote:
I'd like to store all of my mail in maildir, but I want to store the inbox and indices on fast storage and everything else on deep storage. Does the following configuration value for mail_location accomplish this?
mail_location = maildir:/data/deep/%Ld/mail/%Ln:INBOX=/data/fast/%Ld/mail/%Ln:INDEX=/data/fast/%Ld/indices/%Ln
I have the following setup:
default_mail_env = maildir:/var/maildir/%u/:INBOX=/var/mail/inboxes/%u/:INDEX=/var/mail/indexes/%u/index
/var/maildir is a nfs mounted directory on a filer /var/mail is local
I'm running rc2, so maybe default_mail_env is now named mail_location
in this case, you don't need a specific namespace setup.
for compatibility reasons for clients which have a 'Imap Directory' setting my namespaces ook like this:
namespace private { separator = / prefix = inbox = yes }
namespace private { separator = / prefix = ~/MailImap/ hidden = yes }
namespace private { separator = / prefix = /home/%u/MailImap/ hidden = yes }
namespace private { separator = / prefix = ~/mailIMAP/ hidden = yes }
If not, does the following configuration accomplish this with namespaces?
mail_location = maildir:/data/fast/%Ld/mail/%Ln:INDEX=/data/fast/%Ld/indices/%Ln
namespace private { separator = / inbox = yes hidden = yes prefix = location = }
namespace private { separator = / hidden = yes prefix = ??? location = maildir:/data/deep/%Ld/mail/%Ln/??? }
Actually, I can't quite finish the namespace configuration. I'd like to set something like:
prefix = * location = maildir:/data/deep/%Ld/mail/%Ln
But I suspect the '*' won't actually match everything, and even if it did, I suppose it would also match the inbox. I began with listing any and every typical folder in its own namespace like:
namespace private { separator = / hidden = yes prefix = drafts location = maildir:/data/deep/%Ld/mail/%Ln/drafts }
namespace private { separator = / hidden = yes prefix = templates location = maildir:/data/deep/%Ld/mail/%Ln/templates }
namespace private { separator = / hidden = yes prefix = sent location = maildir:/data/deep/%Ld/mail/%Ln/sent }
and so on, but that doesn't seem very elegant. Also, namespaces scare me for client compatibility. Am I missing something obvious?
the prefix setting is not for defining which folder is where, prefix defines where dovecot will look for mail, if a client has the 'Imap Server Directory' set to this value.
regards dirk