Is it possible to mix maildir and mbox formats with dovecot? For example, I would like ~/mail to be in maildir format yet keep the inbox (/var/mail/%u) in mbox format. If so, how may I go about this? Or am I stuck not being able to create subdirectories in ~/mail?
Cheers, Shane
Not quite what you're asking for, and I believe dovecot can do what you want, but what I've done is to set up a procmail filter that moves everything that would've gone to /var/mail/strombrg into a Maildir folder. That way, I have no mbox at all, even though the system's mailspool is set up for mbox.
On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 14:03, Shane Kerschtien wrote:
Is it possible to mix maildir and mbox formats with dovecot? For example, I would like ~/mail to be in maildir format yet keep the inbox (/var/mail/%u) in mbox format. If so, how may I go about this? Or am I stuck not being able to create subdirectories in ~/mail?
Cheers, Shane
Dan Stromberg DCS/NACS/UCI strombrg@dcs.nac.uci.edu
On 15.10.2004, at 00:03, Shane Kerschtien wrote:
Is it possible to mix maildir and mbox formats with dovecot? For example, I would like ~/mail to be in maildir format yet keep the inbox (/var/mail/%u) in mbox format. If so, how may I go about this?
http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/Namespaces
Or am I stuck not being able to create subdirectories in ~/mail?
It's possible to create subdirectories under ~/mail. It's just not possible to create a mailbox which also has submailboxes (ie. UNIX doesn't support files being also directories).
Creating directories is usually done with IMAP clients by appending '/' after the mailbox name. Or simply creating the whole mailbox as "sub/mailbox" without creating "sub".
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Dan Stromberg
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Shane Kerschtien
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Timo Sirainen