[Dovecot] Enabling IMAP namespaces for existing folders
Hi.
We're using dovecot 1.0.3 with a very very simple setup; specifically, there are no namespaces defined. Users have been puttering away happily for many months, creating subfolders and whatnot with (almost) zero problems.
We'd like to start taking advantage of shared IMAP folders. I've been reading over the dovecot wiki and have only one question that I don't see documented. The docs point out that if we define any namespaces, we must also explicitly define the private previously-default one. My question is: are there any migration or transition steps that must be taken there? Will clients' configuration need to be modified in any way when, e.g., their existing IMAP folders suddenly become part of a private namespace?
Thanks for the newbie help.
-- Phil Edwards
On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 16:24 -0400, Phil Edwards wrote:
We'd like to start taking advantage of shared IMAP folders. I've been reading over the dovecot wiki and have only one question that I don't see documented. The docs point out that if we define any namespaces, we must also explicitly define the private previously-default one. My question is: are there any migration or transition steps that must be taken there? Will clients' configuration need to be modified in any way when, e.g., their existing IMAP folders suddenly become part of a private namespace?
Even though you didn't explicitly create a namespace, Dovecot internally created it for you. So as long as you create an identical namespace your clients don't see any difference. The identical namespace can be created easily:
namespace private { }
(or at least I'm pretty sure it fills out the defaults by itself)
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Phil Edwards
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Timo Sirainen