.IMAP locations

[Aki Tuomi]

Hi Elise,

> On 03/04/2021 01:39 Elise <dovecot_ml at cloudzeeland.nl> wrote:
> 
> 
> I have this account, /usr/home/me
>  To be able to admin websites, I created a folder /usr/home/me/www , containing my siteroot /usr/home/me/www/mysite.com
>  
>  My dovecot.config:
>  mail_location = mbox:/home/%u:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
>  
>  the actual mailfolder is/usr/home/me/mail , which I defined in my mailclient as 'mail/'
>  
>  The issue now is that Dovecot is indexing my whole/usr/home/me/ folder, including the www folder, in which it also idexes every folder that is in/usr/home/me/www/mysite.com .

This is very unsafe, as you already noticed. Dovecot will iterate all folders it can find, even if you are only opening mail/.

>  It puts in these folders an .imap folder that is containing the exact content of the folder it is put in. So my site takes double space by this Dovecot indexing.
>  

The .imap folder will not contain duplicate of your mails. It contains indexes. These are not going to end up being same size as your mailbox.

>  To solve this issue, I defined my mail_location line asmail_location = mbox:/home/%u/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
>  and removed the 'mail/' directive from my mail client.
>  
>  For some reason this does not prevent Dovecot to index the subfolders of/usr/home/me/www/
>  
>  - Do I have to remove all Dovecot related indexing files by hand to solve this and restart Dovecot service afterwards?

You will have to restart dovecot.

>  - Can you tell me how I can define the Dovecot index files location so that there will be no .imap folder created anymore in my/usr/home/me/www/ subfolder(s)?
>  

Once you fix your mbox to point to correct location, they stop appearing.

>  Thanks for you help! 
>  Elise
>  
>  #CSSis {beautiful};

Aki