[Dovecot] Maildir folder hierarchy question
Hello all,
I am trying to set up Dovecot to use a particular maildir folder hierarchy and have a problem that relates to the inbox.
the folder hierarchy I want in /.../Maildir/ is:
.inbox cur new tmp .imap.index.files-for-inbox .sent-items cur new tmp .imap.index.files-for-sent-items
however the hierarchy that dovecot gives me is
.inbox (unused) .INBOX .imap.index.files-for-.INBOX cur new tmp .sent-items cur new tmp .imap.index.files-for-.sent-items
I would like to have the (cur,new,tmp) folders associated with the the .inbox placed in the .inbox directory, not alongside it in the main maildir directory. Dovecot appears to do this automatically for other folders. I'm not too bothered if the .inbox folder has to be capitalised.
Is this possible? I suspect from reading the Dovecot Q&A that it may not be as the rootdir has special significance with IMAP but I would like confirmation.
I've currently set my default_mail_env as:
default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%u/mail/maildir:INBOX=/home/%u/mail/maildir/.inbox
which I thought should do accomplish what I want but it has no apparent effect.
I'm running SUSE 10.0 with Dovecot 0.99.14-5 (as installed by Yast). KMail and Outlook are being used to access Dovecot.
Can anyone help? thank you, Richard L
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Presumably, at the most straightforward level, it would...an IMAP client talking to an IMAP server. But are there more subtle incompatibility issues? Ex, does pine handle multiple level subfolders? I currently run UWIMAP with mbox (unix flat file) format (users with 250+MB Inboxes are forcing the shift) and plan to take advantage of Dovecot ability to run multiple INBOX formats, so I can gradually transition users. So, during the transition period, which may take months, will pine be able to not only handle the new maildir format, but the old as well?
Thanks in advance S.
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Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources
Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504
sdean@bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035
Yes, it works fine.
On May 8, 2006, at 8:03 AM, Stewart Dean wrote:
Presumably, at the most straightforward level, it would...an IMAP
client talking to an IMAP server. But are there more subtle
incompatibility issues? Ex, does pine handle multiple level
subfolders? I currently run UWIMAP with mbox (unix flat file)
format (users with 250+MB Inboxes are forcing the shift) and plan
to take advantage of Dovecot ability to run multiple INBOX formats,
so I can gradually transition users. So, during the transition
period, which may take months, will pine be able to not only handle
the new maildir format, but the old as well?Thanks in advance S.
--
Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources
Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504
sdean@bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035
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