--On Friday, October 08, 2004 5:44 PM +0200 Götz Reinicke goetz.reinicke@filmakademie.de wrote:
I recently installed dovecot 0.99 on a fedora core 1 Server which used the wu-imap-server.
I did the same when moving to FC2. I have this setting in dovecot.conf:
default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
Note that UW-IMAP roots your mail folder hierarchy at ~, while this Dovecot setting roots it at ~/mail, so you'll need to change your client subscriptions to eliminate the "mail" from the top of the hierarchy. Or you could move the whole tree to ~/mail/mail, but I think that's a worse hack.
I'm using Mulberry for my client, and I set a "wildcard cabinet" of "*" under "Check Favourites" so that my entire folder hierarchy gets checked periodically. This is orders of magnitude faster with Dovecot than it was with UW-IMAP. I'd guess about 2 seconds to check over 100 folders.