[Dovecot] Mixing mbox and maildir

[Timo Sirainen]

On 6.3.2005, at 13:48, Tom Alsberg wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 10:31:59PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> I just wrote this: http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation
>
>> From what I read there, it seems pretty complicated, but I couldn't
> understand a straightforward way to do this - only with namespaces I
> could create another namespace for mbox, but then clients had to
> know...

Yes, it'd have to be under mbox/ or something like that.

> Is there no way to just have Dovecot detect whether the mailbox is in
> maildir or mbox format on opening?

There's no way for now.

> And what about the problem - that without prefixing mbox: it
> complains:
>
> dovecot: IMAP(user): Failed to create storage with data:
> +~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/user

It means Dovecot couldn't detect if ~/mail was mbox or maildir. If it 
had inbox file or .imap/ directory, it would have been detected as 
mbox, if it had new/ directory it would have been detected as maildir.
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