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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