.imap folders

[Aki Tuomi]

> On 27/12/2020 17:10 Elise <dovecot_ml at cloudzeeland.nl> wrote:
> 
> 
> My user account is located at /usr/home/elise and has a subfolder ./mail
>  In that folder I have some subfolders/subdirectories. What happens now is that dovecot creates all kind of .imap folders in these subfolders.
>  They are all exact mirrors of the base folder(s) the .imap is part of.
>  
>  Can you tell me how I can prevent that dovecot creates these .imap folders other than in my home user folder /usr/home/elise and the
>  /usr/home/elise/mail folder?
>  
>  /Elise
>  
>

The .imap directories contain indexes for dovecot. If you want to put them elsewhere, try adding :INDEX=/somewhere/else/%u to your mail location. 

Aki