Is there a way to hide the top level virtual IMAP folder when using the virtual plugin?

[Robert L Mathews]

As a quick followup to this, I didn't receive any replies to the message 
below, so I'm assuming it's currently impossible to "mix" virtual 
folders in with "real" top level folders at the top level of the IMAP 
hierarchy.

If I'm wrong, a pointer to how to do so would be much appreciated!


On 12/17/19 11:20 AM, Robert L Mathews wrote:
> I'm experimenting with the Virtual plugin to give users access to
> folders like "All Mail", "Recent" and so on, similar to Gmail.
> 
> Something like this works properly:
> 
>    mail_location = maildir:~/
>    namespace {
>      inbox = yes
>      location =
>      prefix = INBOX.
>      separator = .
>      type = private
>    }
>    namespace {
>      prefix = INBOX.virtual.
>      separator = .
>      location = virtual:virtual
>      list = children
>      ignore_on_failure = yes
>    }
> 
> I can then create "virtual/All Mail/dovecot-virtual" and
> "virtual/Recent/dovecot-virtual" in the maildir directory, and it works.
> 
> However, when accessed using IMAP, an IMAP folder named "virtual" shows
> in the folder hierarchy, with "All Mail" and "Recent" descended from
> "virtual". It looks like:
> 
> INBOX
>    Drafts
>    Sent
>    Trash
>    virtual
>      All Mail
>      Recent
> 
> I'd prefer the virtual folders to be a level up the hierarchy without
> the "virtual" parent visible, like:
> 
> INBOX
>    All Mail
>    Drafts
>    Recent
>    Sent
>    Trash
> 
> Is that possible?
> 
> I've tried changing the "prefix = INBOX.virtual." on the virtual
> namespace to just "prefix = INBOX.", but that causes a "Duplicate
> namespace prefix" error.
> 
> I also tried using "alias_for" to merge the namespaces, but that causes
> "namespace configuration error: Namespace virtual. can't have
> alias_for=INBOX. to a different storage type (virtual vs maildir)".
> 


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Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies, http://www.tigertech.net/