AW: dovecot & iOS

[Aki Tuomi]

The easiest way if you have only very few users is to just copy the
files into correct place.

Aki

On 11.04.2017 12:04, Dirk Laurenz wrote:
> Thanks, so how can i migrate this?
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: dovecot [mailto:dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org] Im Auftrag von Aki Tuomi
> Gesendet: Montag, 20. März 2017 12:07
> An: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Betreff: Re: dovecot & iOS
>
>
>
> On 20.03.2017 12:58, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
>> On Thu, 16 Mar 2017, Dirk Laurenz wrote:
>>
>>> What's anying is, that only on iOS (   ) i see a huge bunch of
>> .CONTROL directories - marked grey.
>>
>>> It seems to be a copy of the existing folder structure. I don't see
>> this on
>>
>> (Y)
>>
>>> Is there any chance to configure dovecot to hide those folders to iOS?
>> I suppose, the mail app under iOS does display all mailboxs, the other 
>> ones display subscribed ones only.
>>
>> Because:
>>
>>> mail_location =
>> maildir:~/Maildir:INBOX=~/Maildir/Inbox:LAYOUT=fs:CONTROL=~/Maildir/.C
>> ONTROL:INDEX=~/Maildir/.INDEX
>>
>> ~/Maildir is your top mailbox directory.
>> Then you add Inbox, control and indexes into the very same tree.
>> Moreover control and index have names with a leading dot, which means 
>> "is a mailbox" in Maildir.
>>
>> Why did you places control and index into a different tree at all, if 
>> you place them into the mailbox storage anyway?
>>
>> Either move them to ~/[.]control and ~/[.]index (with or without 
>> leading dot) or remove the settings at all and join control and index 
>> with the existing hierarchie.
>>
>> -- Steffen Kaiser
> As a general rule, it is a good idea to have separate Mailformat directory
> (such as Maildir or Mail) under mail_home which contains only your Maildir,
> sdbox, mdbox whatever format files only, and keep control and index *OUT* of
> this directory. Same goes for sieve. This is because, as seen above, Maildir
> contents can be mistakenly interpreted as mail folders, causing problems.
>
> So avoid this:
>
> mail_home=/var/mail/%u
> mail_location=/var/mail/%u
>
> instead use
>
> mail_home=/var/mail/%u
> mail_location=Maildir:~/Maildir
>
> Aki