[Dovecot] Why am I getting more imap folders?

[poohba at blkpoohba.dyndns.org]

I have always had ~/mail/* but since I've moved to dovecot everything else 
started to appear.

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, 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?
>
> Some patched UW-IMAPs are capable of handling mixed mbox/maildir
> directories, Dovecot isn't yet.
>
>