On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 09:52 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
Timo Sirainen wrote:
Things would probably be simpler if you used prefix="" here. The reason I used a prefix is for the way things show up in Thunderbird and Outlook. Without the prefix, it all falls under the same "tree" as their INBOX. By adding the prefix, they get an extra level called 'mail' where everything lives in. It's a visual thing.
I'd think other people would also hate that. I would. :) Anyway, if it's intentional then be sure to set subscriptions=yes for that namespace too (although I think it's default anyway).
namespace private { separator = / prefix = "mail-Archives/" location = maildir:~/mail-Archives:LAYOUT=fs
Are these really maildirs? Seems like exactly the opposite of what they're good at :) (Maildir is good for active mails, mbox for unchanging archives.) I guess this is where I'm confused and would love a primer on what the differences are, and when to use what.
mbox and maildir are completely different mailbox formats. In mbox a single file contains all messages, while in maildir each message is in a different file.
/home/%u/mail-Archives/ this is where long term archives are, this is stuff that comes OUT of their /home/%u/mail/ and put here, and always stored in a yearly hierarchy, for example: /home/%u/mail-Archives/2009/Ashley/Ashley-Dec09
So Ahsley-Dec09 is a file? It sounds like you're using mbox, so you should use:
location = mbox:~/Mail-Archives
(the :LAYOUT=fs is unnecessary, because it's the default with mboxes anyway.)
So, am I using the wrong setup for the namespaces? Possibly, I wentby what I found online. This is the first time I've ever tried to run Dovecot. Previously we ran uw-imap.
It's probably a good use of namespaces, although it would be simpler if you just put archives under ~/mail/Archives/.