Hi,
Been reading a lot of posts about dovecot configuration, but can't really
figure out if what I want is even possible or how to achieve this.
My setup is simple :
One linux machine that collects mail from my provider and sorts them for
me and my wife, where my email is stored in Maildir format in ~myuser/.maildir
and my wife's email is stored in mbox format in /var/spool/mail.
Before making my wife crazy with a new way of getting and reading email with
IMAP, I tried to do the following :
My PC (not the linux server) runs either linux or XP, and the client I'm using is
Evolution 2.8.2.2. I can get my email using IMAP without problems.
My wife's PC just runs XP and the email client is Outlook which gets its email
from the linux server through pop3.
I've setup Dovecot to service both IMAP and POP3. The default_mail_env is now
set to maildir:~%u/.maildir (which of course only reflects Evolution's IMAP need on
my own PC)
Now for the big question:
How can I achieve that when I get email from the server using IMAP, I will automatically
just look in the Maildir location (~%u/.maildir) __AND__ when my wife logs on through
POP3, dovecot will only look for her email in her mbox directory /var/spool/mail/... ?
In other words, different protocols used by (two) different users need to look for email
in different locations (maildir and mbox).
I tried to get this working using the Namespaces thingy in dovecot, but couldn't get it to
work.
Any suggestions (hyperlinks) are most welcome.
Thanks,
Hans