[Dovecot] Namespace with a single mailbox (for spam)

Tom Alsberg alsbergt at cs.huji.ac.il
Mon Sep 11 12:54:32 EEST 2006


Hi there.

Perhaps this is answered somewhere, but a short search through the
mailing list and Wiki yielded nothing.

We have spam filtering set up for all users, with all messages over
some spam threshold going to a separate mbox.  There is one directory
containing the spam mboxes of all users (call it "/var/spool/spam",
right now), with the spam box of a user residing in
/var/spool/spam/<user>.

I am trying to achieve that, in IMAP, each user will see his spam mbox
as a folder named "SPAM" or something like that (possibly under some
new namespace), without creating a symbolic link for each user.

Is there any facility for that?

Specifically, I do not want to create a single namespace pointing to
the directory, since that will cause each user to have to access his
spam folder under a different name (e.g. #spam.<user>), and users will
also see (although not be able to read) others' spam folders.

  Regards,
  -- Tom

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