dovecot - Nov 2012 - Folder layout after Cyrus to Dovecot migration

# dovecot --version
1.2.15

We're trying to migrate a server from Cyrus to Dovecot, and we're mostly
there.

On Cyrus, the folder layout in the MUA is:

INBOX
 subfolder
 subfolder
 ...
Sent
Drafts
Queue
Trash

Users cannot create sibling folders to the Inbox, only subfolders (and
sub-subfolders, etc). We've replicated that with:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
mail_location = 
 maildir:/shared/imapmail/users/%u:INBOX=/shared/imapmail/users/%u:LAYOUT=fs

namespace private {
   separator = /
   prefix = "INBOX/"
   inbox = yes
}
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

...however, the Sent/Drafts/Queue/Trash folders are now subfolders of
Inbox. Cyrus seems to default to the above layout (at least, I can't find
anywhere that defines it). There are no special settings in the MUA to
achieve the abovev. Is there a way of replicating the above within
Dovecot? We can probably go to V2 if we have to, but 1.2.15 would be
preferable.

Thanks,
Keith

Am 16.11.2012 10:33, schrieb Keith Edmunds:
> # dovecot --version
> 1.2.15
> 
> We're trying to migrate a server from Cyrus to Dovecot, and we're
mostly
> there.
> 
> On Cyrus, the folder layout in the MUA is:
> 
> INBOX
>  subfolder
>  subfolder
>  ...
> Sent
> Drafts
> Queue
> Trash
> 
> Users cannot create sibling folders to the Inbox, only subfolders (and
> sub-subfolders, etc). We've replicated that with:
> 
>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> mail_location = 
> 
maildir:/shared/imapmail/users/%u:INBOX=/shared/imapmail/users/%u:LAYOUT=fs
> 
> namespace private {
>    separator = /
>    prefix = "INBOX/"
>    inbox = yes
> }
>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> ...however, the Sent/Drafts/Queue/Trash folders are now subfolders of
> Inbox. Cyrus seems to default to the above layout (at least, I can't
find
> anywhere that defines it). There are no special settings in the MUA to
> achieve the abovev. Is there a way of replicating the above within
> Dovecot? We can probably go to V2 if we have to, but 1.2.15 would be
> preferable.
> 
> Thanks,
> Keith
> 
read

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Namespaces


Best Regards
MfG Robert Schetterer

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> read
> 
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Namespaces
Thank you: I have (already had) read both.

Are you suggesting that hidden namespaces will provide the functionality
we are looking for? Or have I missed the point?

Thanks,
Keith

Am 16.11.2012 11:36, schrieb Keith Edmunds:
>> read
>>
>> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration
>> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Namespaces
> 
> Thank you: I have (already had) read both.
> 
> Are you suggesting that hidden namespaces will provide the functionality
> we are looking for? Or have I missed the point?
> 
> Thanks,
> Keith
> 
i you like your users have the same namespace as before
configure dovecot like it

if not use ,a new namespace layout, its your choice

hidden namespaces may help making migration transparent for old clients


Best Regards
MfG Robert Schetterer

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http://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64
Franziskanerstra?e 15, 81669 M?nchen

Sitz der Gesellschaft: M?nchen, Amtsgericht M?nchen: HRB 199263
Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Axel von der Ohe, Marc Schiffbauer
Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Joerg Heidrich

Problem: We have some folders (eg, Trash) appearing both as sibling folders
to INBOX and as subfolders to INBOX. We want them only to appear at the
sibling level.

In order to put some folders (Sent, Trash, some others) at a peer
level to INBOX, and all other folders under INBOX, we've defined
namespaces as follows:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
mail_location   
maildir:/shared/imapmail/users/%u:INBOX=/shared/imapmail/users/%u:LAYOUT=fs

namespace private {
   separator = /
   prefix = "INBOX/"
   inbox = yes
}
namespace private {
   separator = /
   prefix = "Trash/"
   location = maildir:/shared/imapmail/users/%u/Trash:LAYOUT=fs
   inbox = no
}
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

In the file system, the mail_location for each user has all the top-level
mail folders plus the cur, tmp and new directories for INBOX, so, for
example, there is a directory in mail_location called "Trash".

Is there a way to configure Dovecot to show Trash at the top level (as the
last namespace definition above does), yet not also show it as a subfolder
of INBOX?

Thanks,
Keith
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