[Dovecot] Virtual mailbox plugin, 4 days of struggling

[Brandon Lamb]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs at stdin.nl> wrote:
> Hi Brandon,
>
> judging from your other posts, I think you made some progress on this
> already. Nonetheless, I will share my working virtual config here. In
> dovecot.conf I have:
>
>  # Virtual mailboxes
>  namespace private {
>    #  list = no
>    prefix = virtual/
>    separator = /
>    # Store virtual mailbox in a "virtual" subdirectory. We use the fs layout,
>    # so nesting of mailboxes is done using normal filesystem nesting.
>    location = virtual:~/Mail/virtual:LAYOUT=fs
>  }
>
>  protocol imap {
>    # Enable virtual mailboxes
>    mail_plugins = virtual
>
> Then, in ~/Mail/virtual I have a directory for each virtual mailbox, which
> contains a dovecot-virtual file. For example,
> ~/Mail/virtual/INBOX/dovecot-virtual contains:
>  INBOX
>  INBOX/Lists
>  INBOX/Bulk
>  INBOX/MaybeSpam
>  Folders/TODO
>    all
>
> (Where INBOX and subfolders refers to the INBOX folder in the default
> namespace, with no prefix, which also has inbox = yes set). This allows me to
> view all my new mail by connecting to imaps://host/virtual/INBOX, and only see
> important mail on my phone by connecting to imaps://host/INBOX, i.e., my real
> inbox).
>
> I hope this helps a bit,
>
> Matthijs
>
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Thanks for the reply! I will go try this, I stuck Allmail under the
virtual directory and i have gotten some things to partially work, but
I will try your setup and see where it gets me!

=D