did you get an answer?

No answer yet. I've had another look at the conf file in the meantime and I still can't detect if specifying :INBOX=... in the default_mail_env has any effect at all.

Richard L

Richard Leszczynski wrote:

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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

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which I thought should do accomplish what I want

but

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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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