Is it possible to mix maildir and mbox formats with dovecot? For example, I would like ~/mail to be in maildir format yet keep the inbox (/var/mail/%u) in mbox format. If so, how may I go about this? Or am I stuck not being able to create subdirectories in ~/mail? Cheers, Shane
Not quite what you're asking for, and I believe dovecot can do what you want, but what I've done is to set up a procmail filter that moves everything that would've gone to /var/mail/strombrg into a Maildir folder. That way, I have no mbox at all, even though the system's mailspool is set up for mbox. On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 14:03, Shane Kerschtien wrote:> Is it possible to mix maildir and mbox formats with dovecot? For > example, I would like ~/mail to be in maildir format yet keep the inbox > (/var/mail/%u) in mbox format. If so, how may I go about this? Or am > I stuck not being able to create subdirectories in ~/mail? > > Cheers, > Shane-- Dan Stromberg DCS/NACS/UCI <strombrg at dcs.nac.uci.edu> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20041014/f02a0d7c/attachment-0001.bin>
On 15.10.2004, at 00:03, Shane Kerschtien wrote:> Is it possible to mix maildir and mbox formats with dovecot? For > example, I would like ~/mail to be in maildir format yet keep the > inbox (/var/mail/%u) in mbox format. If so, how may I go about this?http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/Namespaces> Or am I stuck not being able to create subdirectories in ~/mail?It's possible to create subdirectories under ~/mail. It's just not possible to create a mailbox which also has submailboxes (ie. UNIX doesn't support files being also directories). Creating directories is usually done with IMAP clients by appending '/' after the mailbox name. Or simply creating the whole mailbox as "sub/mailbox" without creating "sub". -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PGP.sig Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 186 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20041015/2562e31c/attachment-0001.bin>