[Dovecot] migration question: "imap server directory"

[Bart Smaalders]

Dan Price wrote:
> In prepping our IMAP migration to Dovecot, I've hit upon a small
> issue: the "IMAP server directory" which Thunderbird users have
> set in the "advanced" prefs.
> 
> Our old IMAP server seems to set your current directory to ~.
> This wound up causing users to set their IMAP server directory to
> "/home/<user>/mail/" so that their mailboxes would be found:
> 
> --> A104 LIST "/home/dp/mail/" "%"
>     * LIST (\NoSelect) "/" /home/dp/mail/
>     * LIST (\NoInferiors \UnMarked) "/" /home/dp/mail/sent-mail-Jul-2006
>     * LIST (\NoInferiors \UnMarked) "/" /home/dp/mail/sent-mail-Dec-2004
>     ...
>     A104 OK LIST completed
> 
> Of course, relative paths also work, but it seems that not many users
> are using them:
> 
> --> A105 LIST "mail/" "%"
>     * LIST (\NoSelect) "/" mail/
>     * LIST (\NoInferiors \UnMarked) "/" mail/sent-mail-Jul-2006
>     * LIST (\NoInferiors \UnMarked) "/" mail/sent-mail-Dec-2004
>     ...
>     A105 OK LIST completed
> 
> Also, it turns out that some users have mail in "mail" and some in
> "Mail".  So for now, with Dovecot, I've set:
> 
>     mail_location = mbox:~:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=%h/Mail/imapd-indices
> 
> But users with absolute paths are having issues:
> 
>     A102 LIST "/home/dp/mail/" "%"
>     A102 OK List completed.
> 
> Versus:
> 
>     A103 LIST "mail/" "%"
>     * LIST (\Noselect \HasChildren) "/" "mail/"
>     * LIST (\NoInferiors \UnMarked) "/" "mail/sent-mail-Jul-2006"
>     * LIST (\NoInferiors \UnMarked) "/" "mail/sent-mail-Dec-2004"
>     A103 OK List completed.
> 
> I've read the MailboxLocation page on the Wiki, but I'm not sure
> of the best way to proceed and have things stay compatible for
> my users.  It is possible to ask all users to change, but I'm
> going to have to field a lot of questions if I ask users for that :/
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>         -dp
> 
> --
> Daniel Price - Solaris Kernel Engineering - dp at eng.sun.com - blogs.sun.com/dp

Do you need to set

mail_full_filesystem_access = yes

in your dovecot.conf?

- Bart