[Dovecot] directory names - have to begin with a dot?
Hi there...
Two questions:
(1) Is there an easy way to have Dovecot recognize subdirectories that do not begin with a dot as sub-hierarchies?
(2) Is there a way to have the root folder map to a certain other mbox/maildir? I want a setup like this:
/ -> $HOME/mbox
/INBOX -> /var/spool/<username>
/folder -> $HOME/mail/folder
/folder/foo -> $HOME/mail/folder/foo
/folder/bar -> $HOME/mail/folder/bar
/folder/foo/bar -> $HOME/mail/folder/foo/bar
(Assuming / as a hierarchy separator - that is,
/folder/foo/bar is the IMAP folder 'bar' inside 'foo' inside
'folder')The idea is something resembling and compatible with the default behaviour of elm/pine/mutt/KMail/evolution, so a user can use both those locally and whatever IMAP client remotely in a similiar organisation...
I would love some further documentation regarding the working of Dovecot's folder lookup and how to achieve different IMAP folder organisations with dovecot. I have not yet looked deep enough into the sources to understand where most of the flexibiliy stems.
Cheers, -- Tom
P.S. anyone checked my trivial patch for settings parsing after closing braces?
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On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 13:39 +0300, Tom Alsberg wrote:
That causes namespace colliding which isn't such a good idea. For example Dovecot creates dovecot.* files, so you couldn't create a "dovecot" folder.
(2) Is there a way to have the root folder map to a certain other mbox/maildir? I want a setup like this:
Nope, but it's planned sometimes after v1.0.
If you want to implement your 2) part, it needs quite a lot of changing to code. Currently maildir is tied to Maildir++ directory layout and mbox to "normal" directory-layout. The mailbox listing/finding code would have to be separated from the actual mailbox handling code to have mixed mbox/maildirs inside one namespace.
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 06:20:24PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
I realize that - there would be a few names you can't use... Still, I would like to do that...
Cool...
Why? I wasn't talking in (2) about mixing mbox and maildir... All it requires, it seems, is for mailbox names not to begin with a dot, and to be able to map the IMAP root to a special specific folder...
Yeah, I know that... That's what's blocking the ability to mix mbox and maildir in one tree (we had a discussion once...). I thought you said you have this planned for somewhen after 1.0 as well...
Cheers, -- Tom
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On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 18:58 +0300, Tom Alsberg wrote:
Hmm. I guess I didn't then understand the question. It looked like a mixed mbox/maildir tree. Mapping sounds like namespaces that Dovecot already has:
/ -> $HOME/mbox
/INBOX -> /var/spool/<username>
/folder -> $HOME/mail/folder
/folder/foo -> $HOME/mail/folder/foo
/folder/bar -> $HOME/mail/folder/bar
/folder/foo/bar -> $HOME/mail/folder/foo/barThere can't be a mailbox named "/" (or ""), so the first one couldn't work? The others could probably be done using namespaces? Assuming you're talking about only mboxes here, not maildirs.
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 07:11:55PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
Actually, in my example, / and /INBOX are mboxes ($HOME/mbox and /var/spool/<username> respectively), while everything in /folder are maildirs. The two wishes I've been trying to demonstrate in this example are: (1) dotless maildirs and subfolders, and (2) mapping the IMAP root folder (I understood there is something like that, that is - IMAP mail folders are a rooted hierarchy) to some specific mbox/maildir.
Cheers, -- Tom
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On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 20:10 +0300, Tom Alsberg wrote:
Easy.
and subfolders,
Not that easy, but copy&pasting the code from mbox code to maildir code shouldn't be too difficult if you want it now instead of sometimes after v1.0.
There isn't such a thing as IMAP root folder.. INBOX is the closest thing to that.
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Timo Sirainen
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Tom Alsberg