[Dovecot] create Sub-Subfolders

Richard Gliebe richard.gliebe at fhv.at
Wed Aug 11 10:23:10 EEST 2010


On 8/10/10 10:39 PM John S wrote:
> You can also create namespaces, making your inbox an mbox and the rest 
> of the folders Maildir.
> 
> Mixed mbox and Maildir
> 
> If you have your INBOX as mbox in /var/mail/username and the rest of the 
> mailboxes in Maildir format under ~/Maildir, you can do this by creating 
> two namespaces:
> 
> namespace private {
>   separator = /
>   prefix = "#mbox/"
>   location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
>   inbox = yes
>   hidden = yes
>   list = no   # for v1.1+
> }
> namespace private {
>   separator = /
>   prefix =
>   location = maildir:~/Maildir
> }
> 

thanks.
I moved yesterday all users from mbox to Maildir.
Everything works now as it should.

regards
Richard


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