Re: [Dovecot] mbox and maildir

On 15.10.2004, at 00:03, Shane Kerschtien wrote:

Is it possible to mix maildir and mbox formats with dovecot? For example, I would like ~/mail to be in maildir format yet keep the inbox (/var/mail/%u) in mbox format. If so, how may I go about this?

http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/Namespaces

Or am I stuck not being able to create subdirectories in ~/mail?

It's possible to create subdirectories under ~/mail. It's just not possible to create a mailbox which also has submailboxes (ie. UNIX doesn't support files being also directories).

Creating directories is usually done with IMAP clients by appending '/' after the mailbox name. Or simply creating the whole mailbox as "sub/mailbox" without creating "sub".