On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 13:29 +0100, Richard G Riley wrote:
> I have an courier IMAP server running. To get sib dirs working I had to
> rename them all to begin with a period ".".
> 
> e.g
> 
> Maildir
> Maildir/{cur,new,tmp}
> Maildir/.account1/{cur,new,tmp}
> Maildir/.account2/{cur,new,tmp}
> Maildir/.account3/{cur,new,tmp}

I hope these "account" directories really are a single user's mailboxes
and not different users' mail directories..

> If I uninstall Courier and install dovecot, will these "period" dirs be
> seen by default?

Yes. Dovecot and Courier use compatible Maildir++ directory structure
where mailboxes all begin with a dot.
http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir explains it more.


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