[Dovecot] Sym links to subfolders?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Jun 24 17:15:32 EEST 2004


On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 16:35, Kevin Cramer wrote:
> I just installed dovecot 0.99.10.6 and I'm trying to use symlinks for
> subfolders.  I have my mail in ~/Maildir and I want to make symlinks
> such as from .Sent to ~/Mail/Sent.  All of these folders are maildir
> and the permissions are correct.
> 
> I've searched the list and I cannot find anything stating that it
> should not work.  In fact I've seen posts that claim it should work.
> However, it does not work for me and looking at maildir-list.c around
> line 101, it appears that it is only checking for directories and not
> for links.

It got broken by change in .10.6. Fix in
http://dovecot.org/patches/maildir-symlinks.patch

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