On Tue, 2012-06-26 at 13:48 -0700, Scott Silva wrote:
on 6/26/2012 1:35 PM Jonathan Ryshpan spake the following:
I'm trying to set up a dovecot server for which mail arrives in an mbox, and mail is stored in a maildir. The wiki (see http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces) refers to this as "Mixed mbox and Maildir". It advises handling this situation by creating two namespaces: one for the mbox and the other for the maildir. Each of these namespaces starts with namespace private {
On the other hand the sample configuration in the documentation puts inbox in a namespace starting with: namespace inbox { # Namespace type: private, shared or public #type = private
It appears that there has been a change in the configuration syntax after the wiki was written, and that the word following namespace no longer gives a property of the namespace, but rather its name.
Is this correct? In any case, how should the configuration be modified
If you are working with 2.0 or later dovecot, you should be at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Namespaces
I am using 2.1.7 . I surmise from this Namespace page that the form: namespace <type> { where <type> is one of "public", "private", or "shared" creates an unnamed namespace of type <type> while the form: namespace <name> { where <name> is none of "public", "private", or "shared", creates a namespace with the name <name> and the default type (unspecified on this page, but probably private). The namespace can be given the type desired by an (undocumented) namespace setting: namespace inbox ( type = <type> Is this correct?
Thanks - jon