dovecot - May 2004 - What about saving your INBOX at ~/mbox ?

Hi, folks. I'm testing out RedHat's "Fedora Core 2" release,
which has
switched from the old WashU imapd to dovecot-0.99.10. Overall, this
looks like a really, really good move on their part: it looks like a
very sweet little tool without some of the ingrained idiocy of Mark
Crispin insisting that every home directory consist of nothing but
mbox files and allowing you to use a configurable subdirectory by
default, ~/mail.

Cool.

There is one feature of the old WashU imapd that I miss, though. That
daemonn could be configured to automatically transfer the user's email
to the "~/mbox" upon activation of the daemon, effectively reducing
the size of the /var/spool/mail/{username}" mail spool and helping
keep the user's disk usage in their home directories, not in
/var/spool/mail. This can be a good thing for various reasons.

But I don't see any way to enable that behavior for dovecot. Is there
something I'm missing, or do folks feel it would be reasonable to add?

-- 

				Nico Kadel-Garcia
				Systems Engineer
				Mitsubish Electric Research Lab
				<nkadel at merl.com>

Am 21.05.2004 um 8:30 Uhr -0400 schrieb Nico
Kadel-Garcia:
>There is one feature of the old WashU imapd that I miss, though. That
>daemonn could be configured to automatically transfer the user's email
>to the "~/mbox" upon activation of the daemon, effectively
reducing
>the size of the /var/spool/mail/{username}" mail spool and helping
>keep the user's disk usage in their home directories, not in
>/var/spool/mail. This can be a good thing for various reasons.
>
>But I don't see any way to enable that behavior for dovecot. Is there
>something I'm missing, or do folks feel it would be reasonable to add?
By chance, I have just set that up.  :)

My default mailbox goes to ~/Mail/INBOX; adjust to your liking.
Set up sendmail/postfix/whatever to use maildrop as your local mailer, add

DEFAULT=$HOME/Mail/INBOX

to /etc/courier/maildroprc

and set

default_mail_env = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=%h/Mail/INBOX

-- that's all.

HTH,
	hauke

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On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 15:30, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> There is one feature of the old WashU imapd that I miss, though. That
> daemonn could be configured to automatically transfer the user's email
> to the "~/mbox" upon activation of the daemon, effectively
reducing
> the size of the /var/spool/mail/{username}" mail spool and helping
> keep the user's disk usage in their home directories, not in
> /var/spool/mail. This can be a good thing for various reasons.
Oh, so there are actually some reasons for the ~/mbox moving? :) Maybe
I'll implement it for 1.0, but there's no quick fix.

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