dovecot - Jul 2006 - default_mail_env and IMAP server directory in client

Hi,

I'm currently installing a dovecot Server to be a replacement for an 
uw-imapd.

I dont want to touch the clients configuration, because I have too much 
users...

Situation is the following: the mbox files are in the users 
homedirectory (~/MailImap), automounted via nfs
In dovecot.conf I've set
default_mail_env = mbox:%h/MailImap:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

It works perfect without a value in Firefox' setting 'IMAP server 
directory' but in all clients tis is set to '~/MailImap' so it
doesnt
show subfolders

I already tried to symlink various things in the MailImap directory and 
different values of default_mail_env, but I cannot mak it work.

Any suggestions?
It would help if dovecot could discard the IMAP server directory setting 
of the client, but I am not a programmer and dont know where to look in 
the source :-(

--
TIA
dirk

Dirk Essl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently installing a dovecot Server to be a replacement for an 
> uw-imapd.
>
> I dont want to touch the clients configuration, because I have too 
> much users...
>
> Situation is the following: the mbox files are in the users 
> homedirectory (~/MailImap), automounted via nfs
> In dovecot.conf I've set
> default_mail_env = mbox:%h/MailImap:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
>
> It works perfect without a value in Firefox' setting 'IMAP server 
> directory' but in all clients tis is set to '~/MailImap' so it
doesnt
> show subfolders
>
> I already tried to symlink various things in the MailImap directory 
> and different values of default_mail_env, but I cannot mak it work.
>
> Any suggestions?
> It would help if dovecot could discard the IMAP server directory 
> setting of the client, but I am not a programmer and dont know where 
> to look in the source :-(
>
> -- 
> TIA
> dirk
You probably should take a look at http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces

Regards,
Dumitru