[Dovecot] Moving to Dovecot
Hi there,
I'm currently running IMAP with Courier and POP3 with Solid-POP3d. I'd like to migrate IMAP and POP3 to both use Dovecot.
All this works fine in testing, except for the fact that I have two types of users for legacy reasons.
One type of user has a Maildir-style inbox at ~/Maildir/
The other type has a mbox-style inbox at ~/Mailbox
Is it possible to make Dovecot look for both? As far as I can see I'd need default_mail_env to accept multiple names, something like this:
default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir/ mbox:~/Mailbox
...but it doesn't, so I'm stuck. :-(
By default, Dovecot would work for me if I moved all my users' ~/Mailbox files to ~/mail/inbox but I really don't want to have to do that if at all possible as that'll break other custom stuff.
Does anyone have any ideas?
[ Apologies if this is a FAQ - I've had a good Google around and a look at the mail archives but can't find the info. ]
TIA, Matt.
Matt Saunders http://www.yoyo.org/matts/contacts/ "This is getting very silly. Too silly." - Professor Yaffle
Matt Saunders wrote:
Hi there,
One type of user has a Maildir-style inbox at ~/Maildir/ The other type has a mbox-style inbox at ~/Mailbox
Is it possible to make Dovecot look for both?
As I understand it, if you are using userdb for user names, dovecot can pluck the mail env from there, only resorting to the default_mail_env value when none is provided.
So, you could set "default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir" and then go add a mail env to all of your "legacy" users.
-- Curtis Maloney cmaloney@cardgate.net
- Matt Saunders matts@yoyo.org [01-23-2005 18:30]:
One type of user has a Maildir-style inbox at ~/Maildir/
The other type has a mbox-style inbox at ~/Mailbox
Is it possible to make Dovecot look for both? As far as I can see I'd need default_mail_env to accept multiple names, something like this:
default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir/ mbox:~/Mailbox
You probably want to use passwd-file authentication like so:
auth_userdb = passwd-file /usr/local/etc/dovecot.passwd
This thread might be useful as well.
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2004-November/005281.html
-Jon
-- Jon Nathan jon@rupture.net
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