Hi Michael
On 21/12/04, Michael Hipp (Michael@Hipp.com) wrote:
I just installed Dovecot and it is working great.
But I need subfolders. Does this mean I need to convert to Maildir format? I found several tools to do the conversion, but is there anything that needs to be changed in Dovecot to make the switch?
Have you had a look at the conf file?
In the current Debian testing version of Dovecot you will see:
# Default MAIL environment to use when it's not set. By leaving this # empty # dovecot tries to do some automatic detection as described in # /usr/share/doc/dovecot-common/mail-storages.txt. There's a few special # variables you can use: # # %u - username # %n - user part in user@domain, same as %u if there's no domain # %d - domain part in user@domain, empty if user there's no domain # %h - home directory # # You can also limit a width of string by giving the number of max. # characters # after the '%' character. For example %1u gives the first character of # username. Some examples: # # default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/%1u/%u/Maildir # default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u # default_mail_env = mbox:/var/mail/%d/%n/:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%n
Read "Detecting what to use" in the mail-storages document. Dovecot checks to see if Maildir format is used and then falls back on mbox storage.
Have you checked your MTA (exim/postfix...) is delivering into maildir format?
Rory
Rory Campbell-Lange <rory@campbell-lange.net> <www.campbell-lange.net>