[Dovecot] Homedir Access without exposing whole Homedir.

[Dan Mahoney, System Admin]

On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 19:27 -0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Most clients don't use namespaces at all, so having a hidden ""
> namespace is pretty pointless. v1.1 actually gives an error message if
> you try to do that.

Yes, but about half my users are using squirrelmail, which DOES.

>> Is there a simple way to do what I want?
>
> Nope. Probably the best way would be to make Dovecot use only ~/mail/
> and create some script that finds all files looking like mbox and moves
> them there.

..or just look through people's subscription files, mebbe.

-Dan

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