[Dovecot] .INBOX required?
Hi,
Newbie to Dovecot and IMAP in general. The system in question is RH 9, Dovecot 0.99.11, Maildir, accessing mail with SquirrelMail, Thunderbird, Kmail, Mutt, Entourage and Mail.app.
I've set up the maildir for users in ~/Maildir. Inside that I have other folders, .Sent, .Drafts, .Trash, .Junk, .MakeJunk, .MakeGood.
~/Maildir itself has the cur, new, and tmp folders, but I note that there is also an .INBOX folder. Mail to the account does end up in ~/Maildir/new and it's readable in the various MUA's (as Inbox). I'm just not certain why the .INBOX is there, and if I'm supposed to be creating the other folders as .INBOX.otherfolder.
Thanks, Todd
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 12:04:16PM -0500, Todd Slater wrote:
~/Maildir itself has the cur, new, and tmp folders, but I note that there is also an .INBOX folder. Mail to the account does end up in
Note that the .INBOX folder does not actually contain your inbox, it contains the various indexes associated with it.
It's fine. Pretend it isn't there.
-Ben
-- Ben Beuchler There is no spoon. insyte@emt-p.org -- The Matrix
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 11:10:08AM -0600, Ben Beuchler wrote:
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 12:04:16PM -0500, Todd Slater wrote:
~/Maildir itself has the cur, new, and tmp folders, but I note that there is also an .INBOX folder. Mail to the account does end up in
Note that the .INBOX folder does not actually contain your inbox, it contains the various indexes associated with it.
It's fine. Pretend it isn't there.
Great, thanks Ben.
Todd
Hi,
I've set up the maildir for users in ~/Maildir. Inside that I have other folders, .Sent, .Drafts, .Trash, .Junk, .MakeJunk, .MakeGood.
looks good.
~/Maildir itself has the cur, new, and tmp folders, but I note that there is also an .INBOX folder. Mail to the account does end up in ~/Maildir/new and it's readable in the various MUA's (as Inbox).
I'm just not certain why the .INBOX is there,
dovecot only stores indizes in there (do ls -a). I think recent 1.0 pre-releases don't do that any more (and thus no longer use a .INBOX folder), but I'm not sure.
and if I'm supposed to be creating the other folders as .INBOX.otherfolder.
Not unless you really want subfolders of the Inbox (which I guess is possible).
johannes
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Ben Beuchler
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Johannes Berg
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Todd Slater