I have always had ~/mail/* but since I've moved to dovecot everything else started to appear.
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 12:27 -0500, poohba@blkpoohba.dyndns.org wrote:
At one point I was just using what was under ~/mail now I have: ~/mail ~/mail/fedora ~/mail/trash .. ~/mail/.imap/fedora ~/mail/.imap/fedora/.imap.index ~/mail/.imap/fedora/.imap.index.tree .. These are not all the files but just the most recently touched files. Can I not just have imap view and use the ~/mail files? Is this normal?
The ~/mail/.imap/ directory is for Dovecot's indexes. If you want to place them in different directory, you can do it with eg.:
default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail:INDEX=%h/mail-indexes
Or you can just forget that they're there. Dovecot doesn't show them to clients.
Can I have it set up to use the maildir files that are already there? It used to work that way but I guess that is with the other imap server that came with fc1.
I'm not really sure what you're asking. ~/mail typically contains only mboxes, so are you talking about something else? If not, why do you have both mboxes and maildirs?
Some patched UW-IMAPs are capable of handling mixed mbox/maildir directories, Dovecot isn't yet.