On 23.2.2013, at 18.26, b...@bitrate.net wrote:
> i'm a little confused about namespace configuration. reading
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Namespaces , and looking at the examples, it seems
> that when a namespace is declared, you can either do "namespace { ..." or
> "namespace foo { ..." - i'm having trouble finding clarity on the
> significance of "foo" though. it would appear it's not required, but then
> what is its purpose? what does it mean? does it imply something?
It serves no other purpose than being able to refer to the namespace later in
the config file.
> it's also unclear to me how to create the "default private namespace". i see
> that there are three types of namespaces, but the list of namespace settings
> doesn't seem to include a parameter to set the namespace type. what am i
> missing?
namespace {
type = private
.. other settings ..
}
They are private by default though. Also the wiki page was somewhat out of
date .. I updated it now. It no longer talks about "default private namespace"
at all, since it probably just adds confusion (especially with v2.1+).
> it's also not quite clear how to denote a namespace as "default". from
> coming across this thread [
> http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/imap-protocol/2010-May/001077.html
> ] it would indicate in theory that a namespace is denoted as default by using
> an empty prefix - but i wasn't able to find corroboration of that in
> dovecot's documentation.
You don't need to.
