Hi there, I'm currently running IMAP with Courier and POP3 with Solid-POP3d. I'd like to migrate IMAP and POP3 to both use Dovecot. All this works fine in testing, except for the fact that I have two types of users for legacy reasons. One type of user has a Maildir-style inbox at ~/Maildir/ The other type has a mbox-style inbox at ~/Mailbox Is it possible to make Dovecot look for both? As far as I can see I'd need default_mail_env to accept multiple names, something like this: default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir/ mbox:~/Mailbox ...but it doesn't, so I'm stuck. :-( By default, Dovecot would work for me if I moved all my users' ~/Mailbox files to ~/mail/inbox but I really don't want to have to do that if at all possible as that'll break other custom stuff. Does anyone have any ideas? [ Apologies if this is a FAQ - I've had a good Google around and a look at the mail archives but can't find the info. ] TIA, Matt. -- Matt Saunders http://www.yoyo.org/matts/contacts/ "This is getting very silly. Too silly." - Professor Yaffle
Matt Saunders wrote:> Hi there, > > One type of user has a Maildir-style inbox at ~/Maildir/ > The other type has a mbox-style inbox at ~/Mailbox > > Is it possible to make Dovecot look for both?As I understand it, if you are using userdb for user names, dovecot can pluck the mail env from there, only resorting to the default_mail_env value when none is provided. So, you could set "default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir" and then go add a mail env to all of your "legacy" users. -- Curtis Maloney cmaloney at cardgate.net
* Matt Saunders <matts at yoyo.org> [01-23-2005 18:30]:> > One type of user has a Maildir-style inbox at ~/Maildir/ > > The other type has a mbox-style inbox at ~/Mailbox > > Is it possible to make Dovecot look for both? As far as I can see I'd > need default_mail_env to accept multiple names, something like this: > > default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir/ mbox:~/MailboxYou probably want to use passwd-file authentication like so: auth_userdb = passwd-file /usr/local/etc/dovecot.passwd This thread might be useful as well. http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2004-November/005281.html -Jon -- Jon Nathan jon at rupture.net