[Dovecot] Homedir Access without exposing whole Homedir.

[Dan Mahoney, System Admin]

Hello All,

Dovecot 1.0.3

I am coming from UW IMAP, and I'm finding for some reason that mail is 
getting stored in a variety of places (which I believe, is because by 
default UW imap allowed access to the entire home directory).

All files are mbox.  My default delivery location is ~/.mail

Thus:

* At least a couple of my users have mail in ~/INBOX, as well as 
~/INBOX.drafts (not many users so I don't really care about this).

* Several of my users have their mail folders in their home directory, AND 
in a mail folder.

For example, my "test case" user, had the following .mailboxlist file:

mail/Sent
mail/Drafts
mail/Spam
mail/Trash
Sent Items
Drafts
Deleted Items
Junk E-mail

Now, here's the question.  I'd like to make it so that everyone has what 
they had before, but that any new folders are created in ~/mail/ (so that 
if I ever DO decide to convert, I know where to look).

What I thought would be useful for this is make the default namespace "", 
but set it hidden.  Then define a secondary namespace (mail) and use that.

However, when I did this, and got a mailbox list, it still recursively 
listed every file in the homedir.

Is there a simple way to do what I want?

-Dan Mahoney

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