[Dovecot] irregular problem on outlook + imap

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Dec 9 22:21:54 EET 2009


On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 12:16 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> 	A couple years ago, sendmail delivered my mail to
> 	~/Mail/<user> and I could cd to ~/Mail and grep and find the
> 	string(s) sought.  
> 
> 	Dovecot seems to save its mail on my mailserver as
> 	~/Mailbox/<dotuser>/*.  What do I change in the conf file to
> 	get rid of the directory DOT prefixes?  

What do you mean by <user>? You mean different mailboxes?

> 	If there is any documentation on this, please point me at it?

Apparently you want LAYOUT=fs, not Maildir++.
http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Maildir#Directory_layout

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