dovecot - Oct 2007 - Homedir Access without exposing whole Homedir.

Hello All,

Dovecot 1.0.3

I am coming from UW IMAP, and I'm finding for some reason that mail is 
getting stored in a variety of places (which I believe, is because by 
default UW imap allowed access to the entire home directory).

All files are mbox.  My default delivery location is ~/.mail

Thus:

* At least a couple of my users have mail in ~/INBOX, as well as 
~/INBOX.drafts (not many users so I don't really care about this).

* Several of my users have their mail folders in their home directory, AND 
in a mail folder.

For example, my "test case" user, had the following .mailboxlist file:

mail/Sent
mail/Drafts
mail/Spam
mail/Trash
Sent Items
Drafts
Deleted Items
Junk E-mail

Now, here's the question.  I'd like to make it so that everyone has what
they had before, but that any new folders are created in ~/mail/ (so that 
if I ever DO decide to convert, I know where to look).

What I thought would be useful for this is make the default namespace
"",
but set it hidden.  Then define a secondary namespace (mail) and use that.

However, when I did this, and got a mailbox list, it still recursively 
listed every file in the homedir.

Is there a simple way to do what I want?

-Dan Mahoney

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On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 19:27 -0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
> What I thought would be useful for this is make the default namespace
"",
> but set it hidden.  Then define a secondary namespace (mail) and use that.
Most clients don't use namespaces at all, so having a hidden ""
namespace is pretty pointless. v1.1 actually gives an error message if
you try to do that.
> Is there a simple way to do what I want?
Nope. Probably the best way would be to make Dovecot use only ~/mail/
and create some script that finds all files looking like mbox and moves
them there.

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On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 19:27 -0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
>
>> What I thought would be useful for this is make the default namespace
"",
>> but set it hidden.  Then define a secondary namespace (mail) and use
that.
>
> Most clients don't use namespaces at all, so having a hidden
""
> namespace is pretty pointless. v1.1 actually gives an error message if
> you try to do that.
Yes, but about half my users are using squirrelmail, which DOES.
>> Is there a simple way to do what I want?
>
> Nope. Probably the best way would be to make Dovecot use only ~/mail/
> and create some script that finds all files looking like mbox and moves
> them there.
..or just look through people's subscription files, mebbe.

-Dan

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--------Dan Mahoney--------
Techie,  Sysadmin,  WebGeek
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