On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 04:03:11PM +0100, Peter McEvoy wrote:
I'm trying to add some sanity to a badly thought out mail system that, for various reasons, cant be fixed from the bottom up at this moment in time. The system is debian sarge, exim 4.5, doing virtual domains and delivering into mboxes in /var/spool/virtual/$domain/$user , there is webmail access and this allows user to create folders in (dont shoot me!) /etc/openwebmail/users/$domain/$username/mail/ , the files in this directory appear to be mboxes in that each mail begins with a From: line, the naming of these files is completely arbitrary.
Im trying to add imap access that would ideally give users access to the mail in /var , and also in the openwebmail dirs, though the latter is not essential, just desirable.
All mails are owned by user mail.
I've installed dovecot-imapd version 0.99.14-1
Further to my last rambling diatribe, I've got this working with:
default_mail_env = mbox:/etc/openwebmail/users/%d/%u/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/virtual/%d/%u:INDEX=/var/indexes/%n
any half decent imap client can see any folders in /etc/openwebmail/users/%d/%u/mail/ , and openwebmail can see any folders the client creates, so everyones happy.
Thanks for a great bit of software.
-- Pete