[Dovecot] Different Formats Per User?

[Brian Hayden]

On Dec 8, 2009, at 2:07 PM, Tony Rutherford wrote:

> For migration possibilities, we're considering whether it's possible  
> to have Dovecot run some users using standard Maildir format, while  
> other users would be using filesystem (LAYOUT=fs) format?  We could  
> determine which one's users have, but is there a way to tell Dovecot  
> this information, and is it even part of the Dovecot design to deal  
> with this scenario?

I haven't tried 2.0, but in the 1.1 series we accomplished this by  
having a small C shim that ran on login and delivery, which checked a  
telltale sign (in our case, whether /var/mail/user was a real file or  
a symlink to ~/Maildir), and setting namespace environment variables  
based on that.

-Brian