Hi guys,

I have a system whereby I am forced to deal with mbox files of

/var/spool/mail/user1 (mbox text file) /var/spool/mail/user2 (mbox text file) etc

Their mail homes are maildir format in:

/home/user1/Maildir/{cur,new,tmp} /home/user2/Maildir/{cur,new,tmp} etc

I can set things up so that the mbox inbox is shown using namespaces:

namespace private { separator = / prefix = location = maildir:/home/virtual/%d/home/%n/Maildir/ } namespace private { separator = / prefix = mail/ inbox = yes hidden = no location = mbox:/home/virtual/%d/home/%n/mail/:INBOX=/home/virtual/%d/var/spool/mail/%n }

This gives a rather odd folder structure as follows:

INBOX Sent Drafts Trash mail/ --- INBOX myfolder1 myfolder2

Both of those INBOXes are actually the same folder.

I'd ideally like to hide the mbox namespace entirely so that the user does not see any mbox folders.

UW IMAP, with it's mbx format, allows you to just drop in a file called INBOX in mbx format and it will 'slurp' the /var/spool/mail/usersmbox file into the mbx INBOX.

Has/could Dovecot have a similar feature whereby you specify a spool folder which is then 'slurped' into the local maildir INBOX?

Not sure if I'm being clear enough here - do let me know if not!

Much thanks, Daniel