On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 14:50 +0100, Jochen wrote:
Hello Timo,
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 12:47:08PM +0200, you wrote:
The .subscriptions file goes to the mbox root directory. This can't be changed with mboxes.
If I have a few central shared IMAP folders in mbox format, how could I manage the subscriptions problem? Here it is quite usual that several users subscribes to one or more of these folders. If the .subscriptions file goes to the root directory of those shared folders only the first user will be able to subscribe to these folders.
Right, that's a problem that can't be solved with v1.0 + mbox.
With maildir you could specify a different directory with :CONTROL=path.
O.k., is it possible to convert just the shared folders to Maildir leaving the user mailboxes in mbox format for now?
Yes. Just change the location = .. in the shared namespace to point to maildir instead of mbox.
With v1.1 there's a new subscriptions=no namespace setting. Then you can specify that you have all users' subscriptions in only the private namespace.
Great. But v1.1 does not compile in our good old mailserver. :-( gcc 2.91 (please, no comment on this...).
A few days (or weeks?) ago there was a patch in this list for compiling Dovecot v1.1 with gcc 2.95. That would probably work for 2.91 too.
Perhaps it is possible to compile a statically linked dovecot on one of our newer machines?
That should work too.