On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 13:03 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > Dovecot has both mbox and Maildir format support. > > I find the statement that dovecot has maildir format support misleading. > > By maildir support, I mean that mail is contained in directories > ~/Maildir/inbox/[cur,new,tmp], ~/Maildir/Family/[cur.new.tmp], > ~/Maildir/Finance/[cur,new,tmp], etc.
That's one way to implement multiple mailboxes to Maildir format, but there's no such standard. > As far as I can see, if you now set up an IMAP server using dovecot > on this machine, setting > mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir/ > in /etc/dovecot.conf > then the email in the folders Family, Finance, etc > will not be seen by an IMAP client. With v1.1 you can do this with: mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs > To clarify my question, suppose one has email organised in server X > as described above, in directories ~/Maildir/Family/[cur.new.tmp/ , etc. > And now suppose one wants to access this email from laptop Y. > How exactly does one have to change the setup on machine X? > And what does one set mail_location to? Why do you want it to work like that? Can't you just use the Maildir++ layout and use the email only via IMAP? > It seems to me that this is an issue likely to be faced by anyone > wanting to run a small home network. > reading email on various machines, > and wanting this email to be kept "in sync". If you use only IMAP, there should be no problem.
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