Hello all, I am trying to set up Dovecot to use a particular maildir folder hierarchy and have a problem that relates to the inbox. the folder hierarchy I want in /.../Maildir/ is: .inbox cur new tmp .imap.index.files-for-inbox .sent-items cur new tmp .imap.index.files-for-sent-items however the hierarchy that dovecot gives me is .inbox (unused) .INBOX .imap.index.files-for-.INBOX cur new tmp .sent-items cur new tmp .imap.index.files-for-.sent-items I would like to have the (cur,new,tmp) folders associated with the the .inbox placed in the .inbox directory, not alongside it in the main maildir directory. Dovecot appears to do this automatically for other folders. I'm not too bothered if the .inbox folder has to be capitalised. Is this possible? I suspect from reading the Dovecot Q&A that it may not be as the rootdir has special significance with IMAP but I would like confirmation. I've currently set my default_mail_env as: default_mail_env maildir:/home/%u/mail/maildir:INBOX=/home/%u/mail/maildir/.inbox which I thought should do accomplish what I want but it has no apparent effect. I'm running SUSE 10.0 with Dovecot 0.99.14-5 (as installed by Yast). KMail and Outlook are being used to access Dovecot. Can anyone help? thank you, Richard L ___________________________________________________________ 24 FIFA World Cup tickets to be won with Yahoo! Mail http://uk.mail.yahoo.com
Stewart Dean
2006-May-08 15:03 UTC
[Dovecot] Will pine work with the dovecot IMAP server and maildir format
Presumably, at the most straightforward level, it would...an IMAP client talking to an IMAP server. But are there more subtle incompatibility issues? Ex, does pine handle multiple level subfolders? I currently run UWIMAP with mbox (unix flat file) format (users with 250+MB Inboxes are forcing the shift) and plan to take advantage of Dovecot ability to run multiple INBOX formats, so I can gradually transition users. So, during the transition period, which may take months, will pine be able to not only handle the new maildir format, but the old as well? Thanks in advance S. -- ===Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504 sdean at bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035
> did you get an answer?No answer yet. I've had another look at the conf file in the meantime and I still can't detect if specifying :INBOX=... in the default_mail_env has any effect at all. Richard L> Richard Leszczynski wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I am trying to set up Dovecot to use a particular > > maildir folder hierarchy and have a problem that > > relates to the inbox. > > > > the folder hierarchy I want in /.../Maildir/ is: > > > > .inbox > > cur > > new > > tmp > > .imap.index.files-for-inbox > > .sent-items > > cur > > new > > tmp > > .imap.index.files-for-sent-items > > > > however the hierarchy that dovecot gives me is > > > > .inbox (unused) > > .INBOX > > .imap.index.files-for-.INBOX > > cur > > new > > tmp > > .sent-items > > cur > > new > > tmp > > .imap.index.files-for-.sent-items > > > > I would like to have the (cur,new,tmp) folders > > associated with the the .inbox placed in the > .inbox > > directory, not alongside it in the main maildir > > directory. Dovecot appears to do this > automatically > > for other folders. I'm not too bothered if the > .inbox > > folder has to be capitalised. > > > > Is this possible? I suspect from reading the > Dovecot > > Q&A that it may not be as the rootdir has special > > significance with IMAP but I would like > confirmation. > > > > I've currently set my default_mail_env as: > > > > default_mail_env > > >maildir:/home/%u/mail/maildir:INBOX=/home/%u/mail/maildir/.inbox> > > > > > which I thought should do accomplish what I want > but > > it has no apparent effect. > > > > I'm running SUSE 10.0 with Dovecot 0.99.14-5 (as > > installed by Yast). KMail and Outlook are being > used > > to access Dovecot. > > > > Can anyone help? > > thank you, > > Richard L > > > > > > > > >___________________________________________________________> > > 24 FIFA World Cup tickets to be won with Yahoo! > Mail http://uk.mail.yahoo.com > > > > -- > ===> Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer > Resources > Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New > York 12504 > sdean at bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: > 845-758-7035 > >___________________________________________________________ Switch an email account to Yahoo! Mail, you could win FIFA World Cup tickets. http://uk.mail.yahoo.com