[Dovecot] Homedir Access without exposing whole Homedir.
Hello All,
Dovecot 1.0.3
I am coming from UW IMAP, and I'm finding for some reason that mail is getting stored in a variety of places (which I believe, is because by default UW imap allowed access to the entire home directory).
All files are mbox. My default delivery location is ~/.mail
Thus:
At least a couple of my users have mail in ~/INBOX, as well as ~/INBOX.drafts (not many users so I don't really care about this).
Several of my users have their mail folders in their home directory, AND in a mail folder.
For example, my "test case" user, had the following .mailboxlist file:
mail/Sent mail/Drafts mail/Spam mail/Trash Sent Items Drafts Deleted Items Junk E-mail
Now, here's the question. I'd like to make it so that everyone has what they had before, but that any new folders are created in ~/mail/ (so that if I ever DO decide to convert, I know where to look).
What I thought would be useful for this is make the default namespace "", but set it hidden. Then define a secondary namespace (mail) and use that.
However, when I did this, and got a mailbox list, it still recursively listed every file in the homedir.
Is there a simple way to do what I want?
-Dan Mahoney
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On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 19:27 -0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
What I thought would be useful for this is make the default namespace "", but set it hidden. Then define a secondary namespace (mail) and use that.
Most clients don't use namespaces at all, so having a hidden "" namespace is pretty pointless. v1.1 actually gives an error message if you try to do that.
Is there a simple way to do what I want?
Nope. Probably the best way would be to make Dovecot use only ~/mail/ and create some script that finds all files looking like mbox and moves them there.
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote:
Yes, but about half my users are using squirrelmail, which DOES.
..or just look through people's subscription files, mebbe.
-Dan
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Dan Mahoney, System Admin
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Timo Sirainen