On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 08:27 -0600, jacob@alltechservices-ia.com wrote:
Essentially, a gmail clone, but one that I can make work on cPanel hosts with roundcube and squirrel mail, etc.
By default, cpanel creates user mail dir structure of (maildir++) inbox, drafts, sent, junk, and trash (with no dovecot specific files until first login)
I would like to replace all those folders with virtual representations with more capabilities. I would like to achieve the conversation view that gmail has pulled off so well.
It's kind of possible to do that, but Dovecot has some problems with updating the view I think. Or maybe it was only when email was deleted that it didn't properly update the view.
namespace: type: private prefix: INBOX. inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes
This is your real mail's namespace.
box with Debian running the same version of dovecot (1.2.x) and on that system I run into problems every time I make a virtual folder a root folder. I assume it is trying to look up a normal folder instead of the virtual ones and I am confusing it.
namespace { prefix = separator = / location = virtual:/etc/dovecot/virtual:INDEX=~/Maildir/virtual inbox = yes }
namespace { prefix = RealMails/ separator = / list = no hidden = yes }
This has the problem that user now can't create any mailboxes other than what you have created globally..
There's really no automatic way to do this.