[dovecot] Re: IMAP Folder paths

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 20:02, Juergen Kahnert wrote:
> we like to use dovecot, but our old imapd used to store the paths of the
> folder in the file ~/.mailboxlist. This file contains something like
> this:
> 
>     mail/read
>     mail/dovecot
>     .netscape/imap/mailbox
>     .Mail/foo

That's UW-IMAP's subscription list.

> Is there a way to use this files with dovecot? It would be a real pain
> to change this for a few thousand user...

Set "default_mail_env = mbox:~/" and rename those ".mailboxlist" files
to ".subscriptions" file (or modify dovecot's sources to make it use the
.mailboxlist directly).