[Dovecot] Migrating subscription lists

[Stewart Dean]

I thought this would be relatively straightforward....I would create 
.subscriptions by doing an ls -1 of ~/mail. 
I'm running into some problems.

1) the ~/mail directories haves directories in them for 5% of the 
accounts!  AFAIK, our mail sevice has always been UWIMAP with mbox 
format INBOXes, and it was my understanding that the mbox format is flat 
and NOT hierarchical and thus I'd have thought that ~/mail would be all 
folders and wouldn't have a directory with folders in it.  Plus our 
users are not, as a rule, power/geek user that would understand even 
making subdirs in ~mail, so I don't know how this would have come to pass.

Should this be?  Or am I misunderstanding things?

2) Some people are consciously or  unconsciously using  the UWIMAP  
.mailboxlist subscription file as it is meant to be used, namely to  
*restrict* the  folders shown.  If/when I generated the Dovecot 
.subsbcriptions file by just doing an ls -1 of their mail directory,  
they will be surprised to see stuff not previously displayed....that 
they may very well not know they'd had.

Murphy must be a terribly overworked deity...you'd think he'd take a 
rest now and then from maximizing entropy

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Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources 
Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York  12504  
sdean at bard.edu  voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035