On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 15:39 +0000, Richard Hobbs wrote: > > That's better actually, you don't then have to add those ~/mail/ > > compabilitity namespaces. > > Well, i haven't added any ~/mail/ compatibility namespaces knowingly... > i guess they might be in the default config (my version has been built > for debian), but how would i check? > > Basically, the problem is that some users have their folders in > "~/mail/" and others have their folders in "~/".
This is kind of what I meant by the compatibility namespaces. If some users have ~/mail/ and whatelse, you'll probably want to add such namespaces to Dovecot. See http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces#Backwards_Compatibility:_UW-IMAP > I want to convert both, and also and up with a standard location in the > maildir setup. I guess the best way to do this is to just copy > everyone's mailboxes from "~/" into "~/mail/" before i run the > conversion, right? That should work, as long as you can find all the mailboxes (or are all files in ~/ mailboxes?) > As long as people don't object to their folders > potentially changing places within their IMAP client, everything will be > OK, right? With the compatibility namespace it should be pretty transparent to clients. Also you'll probably want to set separator=/ in all the namespaces.
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