On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 15:39 +0000, Richard Hobbs wrote:
That's better actually, you don't then have to add those ~/mail/ compabilitity namespaces.
Well, i haven't added any ~/mail/ compatibility namespaces knowingly... i guess they might be in the default config (my version has been built for debian), but how would i check?
Basically, the problem is that some users have their folders in "~/mail/" and others have their folders in "~/".
This is kind of what I meant by the compatibility namespaces. If some users have ~/mail/ and whatelse, you'll probably want to add such namespaces to Dovecot. See http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces#Backwards_Compatibility:_UW-IMAP
I want to convert both, and also and up with a standard location in the maildir setup. I guess the best way to do this is to just copy everyone's mailboxes from "~/" into "~/mail/" before i run the conversion, right?
That should work, as long as you can find all the mailboxes (or are all files in ~/ mailboxes?)
As long as people don't object to their folders potentially changing places within their IMAP client, everything will be OK, right?
With the compatibility namespace it should be pretty transparent to clients. Also you'll probably want to set separator=/ in all the namespaces.