[Dovecot] subscriptions vs mailboxlist

Chris Wakelin c.d.wakelin at reading.ac.uk
Fri Jul 22 17:49:55 EEST 2005


Marc Perkel wrote:
> Is there a way to change the name of the .subscriptions file that
> dovecot looks for to .mailboxlist to be compatible with WU-IMAP? It
> would be handy for testing and conversion if you had that.
> 
> BTW - I'm a new user and your software is very well designed.
> 
>From http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/Migration :-

You can either rename your ".mailboxlist" file to ".subscriptions" for
all you users, or change the definition of SUBSCRIPTION_FILE_NAME in
src/lib-storage/subscription-file/subscription-file.c. In 1.0-test, this
value is defined in
src/lib-storage/subscription-fileindex/maildir/maildir-storage.h and
src/lib-storage/subscription-fileindex/mbox/maildir-storage.h.

If you're using folder prefixes and hidden namespaces, note that UW-IMAP
will store entries in the subscription file including the prefix, but
Dovecot won't.

We've patched this and also changed the location of the subscription
file to be the same directory as the indexes, which is why I forgot it
from my dotfile exclusions :)

Best Wishes,
Chris

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