In Dovecot 0.99, I recall somewhere I read it was possible for INBOX to be both a Maildir and an mbox in the same configuration (either automatically detected, or depending on the existence in a different location). Perhaps I was wrong, I'm not sure.

Any way, I now became interested in this sort of setup:

Most users have their spool an mbox in /var/mail/<username>, and then they (or their MUA) have to move read mail from there to ~/mbox or something like that (a state in which users use the spool as a long-time storage space is unacceptable, and we have measures to avoid it).

However, for those that will access their mail only via IMAP, it will be easier to set in .forward or something like that automatic delivery directly to their mailbox - some Maildir in their home directory (there can then be a link from /var/mail or /var/maildir or whatever to there), which will contain both read and new messages. In such a case one would want INBOX to be that main mailbox.

Would it be possible to set Dovecot to either automatically detect whether /var/mail/<username> is a Maildir or mbox (which relates to my interest in mixing maildirs and mboxes in one namespace which I have written about several months ago) or to configure several options for INBOX with the first one found used?

Cheers, -- Tom

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