[Dovecot] Different Formats Per User?

[Tony Rutherford]

Thanks Brian for pointing me in the right direction...got it!

Tony

Brian Hayden wrote:
>
> 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
>