I need to do the same thing, emulate the hierarchy of folders. However, I do not completely understand the concept of namespaces. I have read the configuration file and the documentation on the dovecot web site and I just don't get it. Can someone explain it differently?
I already have dovecot running on a test server and do not have any namespaces defined. I am moving our user's mbox files to the new server and converting to maildir. Everything works fine except that I don't know how to handle users who have mboxes in subfolders. After reading these recent messages on namespaces I've come to the conclusion I need to emulate the directory structore which involves the implementation of a namespace and defining a hierarchy separator.
In the example below by Steffen, they used : as the separator. Other examples I have seen use / as the separator. Is one separator better suited for a situation than another?
-- Andy
Steffen Kaiser wrote:
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Wolfram Schlich wrote:
Ah! Thanks for clearing that up. Do you have any design document reference at hand?
http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/README.maildirquota.html
quote:
"Can folders have subfolders, defined in a recursive fashion? The answer is no. If you want to have a client with a hierarchy of folders, emulate it. Pick a hierarchy separator character, say ":". Then, folder foo/bar is subdirectory .foo:bar."
Bye,