[Dovecot] The 'dbox' Format

Alexander Beisig
Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:43:26 -0000

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 22:42 +0100, Alexander Beisig wrote:
> > I'd like to give the dbox format a try, but I could not find any
> > information on how to enable it. There's information on how to set
> > mail_location for the Maildir and mbox formats in the wiki and also in
> > the commented configuration file, but how to set it for dbox is
> > strangely missing. I took a guess with 'mail_location =
dbox:~/dbox',
> > but that didn't work, so it's probably not the right way.
>
> That's correct.
>
> > Also, the version of Dovecot that Debian installed was 1.0.15, which
> > is kinda old. Should there any serious reasons why I should manually
> > install a newer version if I'm going to use dbox?
>
> v1.0's dbox is completely different from what v1.1 has. It's also
not
> compiled in by default in v1.0. So don't even try using it.

Ok thanks, so I downloaded the recent 1.1.11 release. But I still don't know
how to enable the dbox format. I think dovecot-example.conf should explain how
to enable it, unless you really don't want people to use this format.
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