Re: [Dovecot] INBOX as mbox, other mailboxes as maildir

21 Apr 2006


      Paul de Weerd wrote:
...
All,
I'm trying to teach dovecot to use the mbox format for /var/mail/%u
and maildir for /home/%u/Mail/ but I'm having quite a hard time. This
is Dovecot v1.0.beta3 under OpenBSD 3.9 on sparc64.
I've been fiddling with default_mail_env and also tried separate
namespaces, but all to no avail. Here's some of the things I tried :
default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%u/Maildir:INBOX=mbox:/var/mail/%u
...
default_mail_env = INBOX=mbox:/var/mail/%u:MAIL=maildir:/home/%u/Maildir/
...
namespace private {
separator = /
prefix =
inbox = yes
location = mbox:/var/mail/%u
}
namespace private {
separator = /
prefix = "Folders/"
location = maildir:/home/%u/Mail
}
...
I have this working with the following, from the wiki, on FreeBSD 6 and
beta3 from ports.
default_mail_env = mbox:/var/mail/%u
# from http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces
# INBOX in /var/mail/username, maildir in ~/Maildir, other
# mboxes in ~/mail under #ignore/ namespace
namespace private {
separator = /
inbox = yes
prefix = "#ignore/"
location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
}
namespace private {
separator = /
prefix =
location = maildir:~/Maildir
}
Squirrelmail displays the #ignore folders. Thunderbird hides them nicely.
Ron Wilhoite