[Dovecot] INBOX protected foldername?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Aug 12 18:28:30 EEST 2013


On 6.8.2013, at 10.52, Hajo Locke <hajo.locke at gmx.de> wrote:

> Its not about the INBOX itself in /var/mail, there are some clients like groupoffice which do their own foldermanagment and create a Folder INBOX on top-level in mailspace
> 
> Hiding user created folders with Name INBOX seems to be based on standard namespace config in 2.1.x
> In dovecot 2.1.7 we have in global:
> 
> mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
> namespace inbox {
> inbox = yes
> }
> 
> This seems to be the default and leads to the problem that Folders with Name INBOX are hidden.

Are you talking about INBOX's children not being visible? That could be a bug in v2.1.7. INBOX itself always exists in top level.



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