[Dovecot] Different Formats Per User?

[Tony Rutherford]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 15:07 -0500, 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?
>>     
>
> What userdb do you use? You could have it return
> "mail=maildir:~/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs" field for the non-standard users.
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/UserDatabase
>
>   
We use LDAP.  Thanks for the info, I think this is an option or maybe 
something in post login scripting to populate the mail environment variable.