On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 09:38 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: > Is it possible to have some folders be mbox and some be maildir format? > > Why you might ask? Sometime for diagnostics I have the Exim MTA archive > certain messages in MBOX format and then I want to copy them into an > imao folder to look at them with Thunderbird. When I used MBOX all I had > to do was copy the file into a folder and it worked. So what I'd like to > do is have a folder with a special name that is MBOX and the rest be > maildir.
You could do this with namespaces. http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces has an example. > Ideally have Dovecot be smart so that if the file exists then it is > assumed to be MBOX and if the directory exists then it is assumed to be > maildir. Has anyone done anything like this? I was thinking about implementing this to v1.1, but it's not so easy, so I'm not sure.
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