dovecot - Apr 2009 - UW-IMAP migration to namespaces

Hello,

I am trying to migrate existing UW-IMAP installation to dovecot 1.1.14 
and I am having troubles with namespaces.

As you know UW-IMAP allows full system access to home directory of a 
user and you can set up dovecot to do that as well, but I would like to 
use namespaces.

If I set my namespaces like this:
namespace private {
   separator = /
   prefix    inbox = yes
   location = mbox:~/:INBOX=~/.mailbox
   hidden = yes
   list = yes
}

namespace private {
   separator = /
   prefix = mail/
   location = mbox:~/mail
   prefix = mail/
   hidden = yes
}

Everything is working fine, but I am seeing also all other files in home 
directory of a user, but this is annoying if you have users with 
public_html folder with millions of files in it. Dovecot indexing makes 
index.log file for every file seen in namespace, so you have several 
million index files for files that are not mailboxes.

So I was wondering is there a way to skip certain directories in 
namespaces or a way to setup namespaces in a way, that you would have:
- INBOX in home directory
- some folders in home directory (via .subscriptions)
- some folders in %h/mail/ directory
- and not seeing all other files/directories in home dir

Thanks in advance,

regards, Jernej

On Apr 17, 2009, at 6:37 AM, Jernej Porenta wrote:
> If I set my namespaces like this:
> namespace private {
>  separator = /
>  prefix >  inbox = yes
>  location = mbox:~/:INBOX=~/.mailbox
>  hidden = yes
>  list = yes
> }
>
> namespace private {
>  separator = /
>  prefix = mail/
>  location = mbox:~/mail
>  prefix = mail/
>  hidden = yes
> }
That's a bit weird way to set them up. I'd think that the second  
namespace doesn't do anything useful since it would work the same with  
the first namespace as well. Except the INBOX location perhaps is  
different then.
> So I was wondering is there a way to skip certain directories in  
> namespaces or a way to setup namespaces in a way, that you would have:
> - INBOX in home directory
> - some folders in home directory (via .subscriptions)
> - some folders in %h/mail/ directory
> - and not seeing all other files/directories in home dir
No. That's way too much of a special case. Best would be if you just  
managed to move all the mailboxes to ~/mail/ and make Dovecot use only  
that directory.