dovecot - Jan 2007 - How change the order POP checks mail.

Hello!

I have a problem with the POP when I want to use mbox and Maildirs.

The old users are now using uw-imap, but in the future should theres
old e-mail be in mbox format and the new e-mails in maildirs.

I'am using this code and its worked fine in Squirrelmail and IMAP.

namespace private {
  separator = /
 inbox = yes
  hidden = no
  prefix = "mbox/"
  location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
 }

namespace private {
  separator = /
  prefix   location = maildir:~/Maildir
}

but not with POP, I can't find any mail.

When I only searching for mbox mail, it worked great.

I think thats the problem are the pop who first searching for Maildirs
and then mailboxes.

So how could I get the Dovecot POP server to first check the mailboxes
and then the maildirs?

Or how should I go around this problem?

Thanks!

Andreas Andersson

On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 13:17 +0200, Andreas Andersson wrote:
> I think thats the problem are the pop who first searching for Maildirs
> and then mailboxes.
> 
> So how could I get the Dovecot POP server to first check the mailboxes
> and then the maildirs?
You can't, POP can only access a single mailbox.

johannes
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On 19.1.2007, at 13.17, Andreas Andersson wrote:
> namespace private {
>  separator = /
> inbox = yes
>  hidden = no
>  prefix = "mbox/"
>  location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
> }
>
> namespace private {
>  separator = /
>  prefix >  location = maildir:~/Maildir
> }
>
> but not with POP, I can't find any mail.
>
> When I only searching for mbox mail, it worked great.
>
> I think thats the problem are the pop who first searching for Maildirs
> and then mailboxes.
Actually with POP3 the namespaces are completely ignored. Only  
mail_location setting matters. So if you set:

mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

That should work. If you want it to fallback to Maildir if mbox  
doesn't exist, you can script it (http://wiki.dovecot.org/ 
PostLoginScripting). It you want it to use both mbox and maildir,  
that's not going to work directly. You could again write a post-login  
script that moves mails from eg. mbox to maildir, and then sets the  
maildir as the INBOX.
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