[Dovecot] Why am I getting more imap folders?

[Rob Campbell]

On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 21:45 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 12:27 -0500, poohba at blkpoohba.dyndns.org wrote:
> > At one point I was just using what was under ~/mail now I have:
> > ~/mail
> > ~/mail/fedora
> > ~/mail/trash
> ..
> > ~/mail/.imap/fedora
> > ~/mail/.imap/fedora/.imap.index
> > ~/mail/.imap/fedora/.imap.index.tree
> ..
> > These are not all the files but just the most recently touched files.  Can 
> > I not just have imap view and use the ~/mail files?  Is this normal?  
> 
> The ~/mail/.imap/ directory is for Dovecot's indexes. If you want to
> place them in different directory, you can do it with eg.:
> 
> default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail:INDEX=%h/mail-indexes
> 
> Or you can just forget that they're there. Dovecot doesn't show them to
> clients.
> 
> > Can I have it set up to use the maildir files that are already there?  It used 
> > to work that way but I guess that is with the other imap server that came 
> > with fc1.
> 
> I'm not really sure what you're asking. ~/mail typically contains only
> mboxes, so are you talking about something else? If not, why do you have
> both mboxes and maildirs?
> 

In ~/mail there are files that are actually mail directories.  I don't
know what they are called but that is the way it has been since RH5.3
until FC1.  This problem has only been since FC1.

> Some patched UW-IMAPs are capable of handling mixed mbox/maildir
> directories, Dovecot isn't yet.
> 
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