Hi,
recently moved our server from mbox format to Maildir format.
Almost all the users are very happy with this, since the speed had increased
very much.
I used mb2md to do the conversion and on this task all the mailboxes that had
"." (dot)
on their names were converted to "_".
But there is one issue with this, we also use the webmail that comes with
Phpgroupware,
and it uses some mailbox that have fixed named like INBOX.Sent, INBOX.Draft and
so on.
When their names were changed the sent messages didn't get saved anymore, so
I had to move
them back to the old names.
After that the sent messages returned to be saved again, but another troube
showed up.
As they start with .INBOX and have "." on the names, Dovecot shown
them as a subdirectory
of the INBOX and we got some people upset with this.
I need help on configuring Dovecot to not show them this way, because if you
look the .INBOX.Sent
either on the webmail or by outlook, the field displayed is the sender, witch is
not desired.
When I did the conversion, to keep the compatibility with the old server (quota,
avoid I/O botleneck, etc), I set
two Maildirs, one at /var/spool/mail/$USER, to be the INBOX and another at the
user home.
We are using Dovecot version 1.1.13, and below is the relevant configuration on
use.
namespace public {
prefix = "#mbox/"
separator = /
inbox = yes
list = no
location= maildir:/var/spool/mail/%u/:CONTROL=~/control:INDEX=~/control
}
namespace private {
separator = /
prefix location= maildir:~/Maildir/:CONTROL=~/control:INDEX=~/control
inbox = no
}
Best Regards,
Carlos Xavier.
Hi,
I am resending this email, since the fist one didn't hit the list.
Recently we moved our server from mbox format to Maildir format and started
using Dovecot.
Almost all the users are very happy with this, since the speed had increased
very much.
I used mb2md to do the conversion and on this task all the mailboxes that
had "." (dot)
on their names were converted to "_".
But there is one issue with this, we also use the webmail that comes with
Phpgroupware,
and it uses some mailbox that have fixed named like INBOX.Sent, INBOX.Draft
and so on.
When their names were changed the sent messages didn't get saved anymore, so
I had to move
them back to the old names.
After that the sent messages returned to be saved again, but another trouble
showed up.
As they start with .INBOX and have "." on the names, Dovecot shown
them as a
subdirectory
of the INBOX and we got some people upset with this.
I need help on configuring Dovecot to not show them this way, because if you
reed the .INBOX.Sent
either on the webmail or by Outlook, the field displayed is the sender,
witch is not desired.
When I did the conversion, to keep the compatibility with the old server
(quota, avoid I/O bottleneck, etc), I set
two Maildirs, one at /var/spool/mail/$USER, to be the INBOX and another at
the user home.
We are using Dovecot version 1.1.13, and below is the relevant configuration
on use.
namespace public {
prefix = "#mbox/"
separator = /
inbox = yes
list = no
location= maildir:/var/spool/mail/%u/:CONTROL=~/control:INDEX=~/control
}
namespace private {
separator = /
prefix location= maildir:~/Maildir/:CONTROL=~/control:INDEX=~/control
inbox = no
}
Best Regards,
Carlos Xavier.
On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 04:12 -0300, Carlos Xavier wrote:> But there is one issue with this, we also use the webmail that comes with Phpgroupware, > and it uses some mailbox that have fixed named like INBOX.Sent, INBOX.Draft and so on. > When their names were changed the sent messages didn't get saved anymore, so I had to move > them back to the old names.Are you sure you can't configure it to use just Sent, Draft, etc. without the INBOX. prefix? Most webmails can be configured either way. You can anyway create a compatibility namespace for it. From http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces : namespace private { separator = . prefix = inbox = yes } namespace private { separator = . prefix = INBOX. inbox = no hidden = yes list = no # for v1.1+ } -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20090528/eee69749/attachment-0002.bin>