dovecot - Feb 2006 - INBOX as Maildir and folders as mbox

Hi,

I was wondering whether anybody has managed to get Dovecot 1.0 to store
INBOX as Maildir and folders as mbox.

I've tried something like

default_mail_env
mbox:/folders/user/mail:INBOX=maildir:/inboxes/maildir/user:INDEX=/indexes/user

but it doesn't seem to work (treats INBOX as mbox).

I'm hoping to move some INBOXes from mbox on local disk to Maildir on
nicely-mirrored NetApp NFS (or possibly iSCSI) servers for redundancy
and better incremental backups.

I'm probably doing something silly, or have misunderstood something!

Chris

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Hello Chris,

On Fri, February 24, 2006 11:29, Chris Wakelin wrote:
> I was wondering whether anybody has managed to get Dovecot 1.0 to store
> INBOX as Maildir and folders as mbox.
...

I managed to do the reverse, i.e. INBOX as mbox and folders as maildirs, apart
from an hidden folder used for backward compatibility and migration. Probably
the same approach, reversed of course, applies to your situation. I had to use
a couple of namespaces, along with the default, to get the result:

default_mail_env = mbox:%h/Profile/Maildir/MBox:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

namespace private {
  separator = /
  prefix   location = maildir:%h/Profile/Maildir
}
namespace private {
  separator = /
  inbox = yes
  prefix = "#mbox/"
  location = mbox:%h/Profile/Maildir/MBox:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
  hidden = yes
}

Namespaces are supporte only on recent versions of Dovecot and only on IMAP,
not POP3.

Bye,

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