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

Jim Horner jhorner at arinbe.com
Mon Sep 11 17:58:04 EEST 2006


> /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?


Looking at
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces

w/o doing any testing, I would try something along these lines (from the 
bottom of the page)

namespace private {
  separator = /
  inbox = yes
  location = mbox:/var/spool/spam/%u:INBOX=/var/spool/%u
}


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