Re: [Dovecot] Using a namespace for providing access to mail snapshots for user based on-demand restoration of email backups

On 6.4.2012, at 1.46, Joseph Tam wrote:

One other consideration (at least for me) is if the INBOX and personal mail folders are stored in two separate FS's. It would be nice to fuse the two sets of backups under the same namespace, but I don't know how the namespace prefix matching works and whether you can define hierarchical namespaces like

namespace { prefix = backup/inbox location = mbox:/path/to/inbox-snapdir/%u ... }

namespace { prefix = backup/mail location = mbox:/path/to/mail-snapdir/%u ... }

You can define hierarchical namespaces, although they've probably not been used outside my few tests. Well, except shared/<user>/ autocreated namespaces are already children to shared/ namespace, so I guess they should work.