dovecot - Mar 2005 - problems with migration to Maildir

I'm attempting to use Maildir and mbox together until I can finish 
migrating all mailboxes and figure out issues I'm having with a couple 
other mailboxes.  But, I want to officially start using Maildir as the 
primary msg. store.  Now...when I configure Dovecot as follows, it 
creates new folders in the ~/mail folder, which is where my mboxes reside:

#default_mail_env #default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=~/mbox
#default_mail_env = mbox:~/:INBOX=~/mbox
#default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=~/mbox
default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir

#namespace private {
#  separator = /
#  inbox = yes
#  prefix #  location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=~/mbox
#}
#namespace private {
#  separator = /
#  prefix = "Maildir/"
#  location = maildir:~/Maildir
#}

namespace private {
   separator = /
   inbox = yes
   location = maildir:~/Maildir
}
namespace private {
   separator = /
   location = mbox:~/mail
}



I would like to have access to the mbox hierarchy, but I want all new 
folders by default created in ~/Maildir.  How do I go about acheiving this?

Thanks,
Frank

On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 08:39 -0600, F. Even wrote:
> namespace private {
>    separator = /
>    inbox = yes
>    location = maildir:~/Maildir
> }
> namespace private {
>    separator = /
>    location = mbox:~/mail
> }
> 
> I would like to have access to the mbox hierarchy, but I want all new 
> folders by default created in ~/Maildir.  How do I go about acheiving this?
If you don't want to give some prefix to mbox, but you'd want Dovecot to
automatically figure out in which namespaces the mailboxes are.. Sorry,
not possible. Perhaps you could do that by changing the code (some
stat()ing in namespace_find() might do it).

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Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 08:39 -0600, F. Even wrote:
> 
>>namespace private {
>>   separator = /
>>   inbox = yes
>>   location = maildir:~/Maildir
>>}
>>namespace private {
>>   separator = /
>>   location = mbox:~/mail
>>}
>>
>>I would like to have access to the mbox hierarchy, but I want all new 
>>folders by default created in ~/Maildir.  How do I go about acheiving
this?
> 
> 
> If you don't want to give some prefix to mbox, but you'd want
Dovecot to
> automatically figure out in which namespaces the mailboxes are.. Sorry,
> not possible. Perhaps you could do that by changing the code (some
> stat()ing in namespace_find() might do it).
Well...I had a prefix the second namespace, and it was appending the 
name of the prefix to the beginning of each folder.  It didn't work 
right, so I removed the prefix and everything looked fine, nice and 
unified even...but I didn't understand why by default it was trying to 
create folders in the mbox hierarchy.

I think I figured out the issue though...I had removed the "prefix" 
completely from the first definition, that might have caused the 
problem, because it works as expected with this configuration:

namespace private {
   separator = /
   inbox = yes
   prefix    location = maildir:~/Maildir
}
namespace private {
   separator = /
   prefix = "z_mbox/"
   location = mbox:~/mail
}

Thanks for your help.

Frank