dovecot - Apr 2006 - INBOX as mbox, other mailboxes as maildir

All,

I'm trying to teach dovecot to use the mbox format for /var/mail/%u
and maildir for /home/%u/Mail/ but I'm having quite a hard time. This
is Dovecot v1.0.beta3 under OpenBSD 3.9 on sparc64.

I've been fiddling with default_mail_env and also tried separate
namespaces, but all to no avail. Here's some of the things I tried :

default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%u/Maildir:INBOX=mbox:/var/mail/%u
...
default_mail_env = INBOX=mbox:/var/mail/%u:MAIL=maildir:/home/%u/Maildir/
...
namespace private {
        separator = /
        prefix         inbox = yes
        location = mbox:/var/mail/%u
}
namespace private {
        separator = /
        prefix = "Folders/"
        location = maildir:/home/%u/Mail
}
...

But all it does is complain that my mbox files dont have a cur/
directory in them or create mbox-type files in /home/%u/mail/, in
stead of saving my mail in a maildir under /home/%u/Mail/. So using
namespaces doesn't seem to be such a good idea after all, I can have
extra maildirs under Folders/ in ~/Mail, but that's not where my
IMAP client saves its sent mail.

I'm quite obviously doing something wrong, is this possible at all ?
What is the correct incantation for the default_mail_env setting for
such a setup ?

Any clues would be greatly appreciated,

Cheers,

Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd

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Paul de Weerd wrote:
> All,
> 
> I'm trying to teach dovecot to use the mbox format for /var/mail/%u
> and maildir for /home/%u/Mail/ but I'm having quite a hard time. This
> is Dovecot v1.0.beta3 under OpenBSD 3.9 on sparc64.
> 
> I've been fiddling with default_mail_env and also tried separate
> namespaces, but all to no avail. Here's some of the things I tried :
> 
> default_mail_env = maildir:/home/%u/Maildir:INBOX=mbox:/var/mail/%u
> ...
> default_mail_env = INBOX=mbox:/var/mail/%u:MAIL=maildir:/home/%u/Maildir/
> ...
> namespace private {
>         separator = /
>         prefix >         inbox = yes
>         location = mbox:/var/mail/%u
> }
> namespace private {
>         separator = /
>         prefix = "Folders/"
>         location = maildir:/home/%u/Mail
> }
> ...
> 
I have this working with the following, from the wiki, on FreeBSD 6 and 
beta3 from ports.

default_mail_env = mbox:/var/mail/%u

# from http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces
# INBOX in /var/mail/username, maildir in ~/Maildir, other
# mboxes in ~/mail under #ignore/ namespace

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

Squirrelmail displays the #ignore folders. Thunderbird hides them nicely.

Ron Wilhoite