[Dovecot] directory names - have to begin with a dot?

[Tom Alsberg]

On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 07:11:55PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> Hmm. I guess I didn't then understand the question. It looked like a
> mixed mbox/maildir tree. Mapping sounds like namespaces that Dovecot
> already has:
> 
>         /               -> $HOME/mbox
>         /INBOX          -> /var/spool/<username>
>         /folder         -> $HOME/mail/folder
>         /folder/foo     -> $HOME/mail/folder/foo
>         /folder/bar     -> $HOME/mail/folder/bar
>         /folder/foo/bar -> $HOME/mail/folder/foo/bar
> 
> There can't be a mailbox named "/" (or ""), so the first one couldn't
> work? The others could probably be done using namespaces? Assuming
> you're talking about only mboxes here, not maildirs.

Actually, in my example, / and /INBOX are mboxes ($HOME/mbox and
/var/spool/<username> respectively), while everything in /folder are
maildirs.  The two wishes I've been trying to demonstrate in this
example are:  (1) dotless maildirs and subfolders, and (2) mapping the
IMAP root folder (I understood there is something like that, that is -
IMAP mail folders are a rooted hierarchy) to some specific
mbox/maildir.

  Cheers,
  -- Tom

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