[Dovecot] Setting up mixed mbox and maildir
Jonathan Ryshpan
jonrysh at pacbell.net
Tue Jun 26 23:35:00 EEST 2012
I'm trying to set up a dovecot server for which mail arrives in an mbox,
and mail is stored in a maildir. The wiki (see
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces) refers to this as "Mixed mbox and
Maildir". It advises handling this situation by creating two
namespaces: one for the mbox and the other for the maildir. Each of
these namespaces starts with
namespace private {
On the other hand the sample configuration in the documentation puts
inbox in a namespace starting with:
namespace inbox {
# Namespace type: private, shared or public
#type = private
It appears that there has been a change in the configuration syntax
after the wiki was written, and that the word following namespace
no longer gives a property of the namespace, but rather its name.
Is this correct? In any case, how should the configuration be modified
to handle mixed mailboxes?
Thanks - jon
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