[Dovecot] Sub-Folder Query
Hi all,
I have a question in regards to folders/sub-folders with dovecot and Microsoft Outlook 2000.
When creating folders if you do not append a "/" to the end of the folder name you cannot create sub-folders. Is there any solution/work around so that users do not have to append a slash on the end of the folder name?
I would like to use dovecot for about a 50-user IMAP server however adding a slash to the end of folder names won't go down well with the users who are not the most computer literate people.
Cheers, Kaan Kivilcim
PH: +61 2 8337 8841 Network Admin/IT Support FAX: +61 2 9693 5670 CT Freight Pty Ltd
Kaan Kivilcim wrote:
Hi all,
I have a question in regards to folders/sub-folders with dovecot and Microsoft Outlook 2000.
When creating folders if you do not append a "/" to the end of the folder name you cannot create sub-folders. Is there any solution/work around so that users do not have to append a slash on the end of the folder name?
Sounds to me like you're using mbox storage? This is a limitation of mbox - a mailbox cannot contain folders, and folders cannot contain messages.
This is not a limitation Maildir suffers from.
I would like to use dovecot for about a 50-user IMAP server however adding a slash to the end of folder names won't go down well with the users who are not the most computer literate people.
I would recommend you try using Maildir. If you don't want to mess with your LDA too much, Dovecot 1.0 can read your INBOX as mbox, and local folders as Maildir.
I run Dovecot for approximately 25 users, and even Marketing has had no troubles :P
-- Curtis Maloney cmaloney@cardgate.net
Thank you very much Curtis!
I was infact using mbox I just assumed the default mailbox format was maildir. Fixed the problem by setting the default_mail_env option in dovecot.conf.
Cheers, Kaan Kivilcim
PH: +61 2 8337 8841 Network Admin/IT Support FAX: +61 2 9693 5670 CT Freight Pty Ltd
-----Original Message----- From: Curtis Maloney [mailto:cmaloney@cardgate.net] Sent: Wednesday, 16 November 2005 1:12 To: Kaan Kivilcim Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Sub-Folder Query
Hi all,
I have a question in regards to folders/sub-folders with dovecot and Microsoft Outlook 2000.
When creating folders if you do not append a "/" to the end of
Kaan Kivilcim wrote: the folder
name you cannot create sub-folders. Is there any solution/work around so that users do not have to append a slash on the end of the folder name?
Sounds to me like you're using mbox storage? This is a limitation of mbox - a mailbox cannot contain folders, and folders cannot contain messages.
This is not a limitation Maildir suffers from.
I would like to use dovecot for about a 50-user IMAP server however adding a slash to the end of folder names won't go down well with the users who are not the most computer literate people.
I would recommend you try using Maildir. If you don't want to mess with your LDA too much, Dovecot 1.0 can read your INBOX as mbox, and local folders as Maildir.
I run Dovecot for approximately 25 users, and even Marketing has had no troubles :P
-- Curtis Maloney cmaloney@cardgate.net
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Curtis Maloney
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Kaan Kivilcim
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Steffen Kaiser