Re: [Dovecot] Switch from courier to dovecot

On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 13:29 +0100, Richard G Riley wrote:

I have an courier IMAP server running. To get sib dirs working I had to rename them all to begin with a period ".".

e.g

Maildir Maildir/{cur,new,tmp} Maildir/.account1/{cur,new,tmp} Maildir/.account2/{cur,new,tmp} Maildir/.account3/{cur,new,tmp}

I hope these "account" directories really are a single user's mailboxes and not different users' mail directories..

If I uninstall Courier and install dovecot, will these "period" dirs be seen by default?

Yes. Dovecot and Courier use compatible Maildir++ directory structure where mailboxes all begin with a dot. http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir explains it more.