On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 03:21:54PM -0500, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 12:16 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> > A couple years ago, sendmail delivered my mail to
> > ~/Mail/<user> and I could cd to ~/Mail and grep and find the
> > string(s) sought.
> >
> > Dovecot seems to save its mail on my mailserver as
> > ~/Mailbox/<dotuser>/*. What do I change in the conf file to
> > get rid of the directory DOT prefixes?
>
> What do you mean by <user>? You mean different mailboxes?
That depends upon the definition of mailbox. Mail to me from,
say, "smith" was stored as ~/Mail/smith; mail from "jones" was
stored as ~/Mail/jones. In early '08, using dovecot, that
became ~Maildir/.smith/* and ~/Maildir/.jones/*. It would be
nice to get rid of the leading dot.
>
> > If there is any documentation on this, please point me at it?
>
> Apparently you want LAYOUT=fs, not Maildir++.
Hm, I have no clue; I'm too new right now.
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Maildir#Directory_layout
thanks much; i'll check this page.
>
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