[Dovecot] INBOX as Maildir and folders as mbox
Hi,
I was wondering whether anybody has managed to get Dovecot 1.0 to store INBOX as Maildir and folders as mbox.
I've tried something like
default_mail_env = mbox:/folders/user/mail:INBOX=maildir:/inboxes/maildir/user:INDEX=/indexes/user
but it doesn't seem to work (treats INBOX as mbox).
I'm hoping to move some INBOXes from mbox on local disk to Maildir on nicely-mirrored NetApp NFS (or possibly iSCSI) servers for redundancy and better incremental backups.
I'm probably doing something silly, or have misunderstood something!
Chris
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Hello Chris,
On Fri, February 24, 2006 11:29, Chris Wakelin wrote:
I was wondering whether anybody has managed to get Dovecot 1.0 to store INBOX as Maildir and folders as mbox. ...
I managed to do the reverse, i.e. INBOX as mbox and folders as maildirs, apart from an hidden folder used for backward compatibility and migration. Probably the same approach, reversed of course, applies to your situation. I had to use a couple of namespaces, along with the default, to get the result:
default_mail_env = mbox:%h/Profile/Maildir/MBox:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
namespace private { separator = / prefix = location = maildir:%h/Profile/Maildir } namespace private { separator = / inbox = yes prefix = "#mbox/" location = mbox:%h/Profile/Maildir/MBox:INBOX=/var/mail/%u hidden = yes }
Namespaces are supporte only on recent versions of Dovecot and only on IMAP, not POP3.
Bye,
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