On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 13:39 +0300, Tom Alsberg wrote:
Hi there...
Two questions:
(1) Is there an easy way to have Dovecot recognize subdirectories that do not begin with a dot as sub-hierarchies?
That causes namespace colliding which isn't such a good idea. For example Dovecot creates dovecot.* files, so you couldn't create a "dovecot" folder.
(2) Is there a way to have the root folder map to a certain other mbox/maildir? I want a setup like this:
Nope, but it's planned sometimes after v1.0.
I would love some further documentation regarding the working of Dovecot's folder lookup and how to achieve different IMAP folder organisations with dovecot. I have not yet looked deep enough into the sources to understand where most of the flexibiliy stems.
If you want to implement your 2) part, it needs quite a lot of changing to code. Currently maildir is tied to Maildir++ directory layout and mbox to "normal" directory-layout. The mailbox listing/finding code would have to be separated from the actual mailbox handling code to have mixed mbox/maildirs inside one namespace.