Hi Elise,
> On 03/04/2021 01:39 Elise <dovecot...@cloudzeeland.nl> wrote:
>
>
> I have this account, /usr/home/me
> To be able to admin websites, I created a folder /usr/home/me/www ,
> containing my siteroot /usr/home/me/www/mysite.com
>
> My dovecot.config:
> mail_location = mbox:/home/%u:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
>
> the actual mailfolder is/usr/home/me/mail , which I defined in my mailclient
> as 'mail/'
>
> The issue now is that Dovecot is indexing my whole/usr/home/me/ folder,
> including the www folder, in which it also idexes every folder that is
> in/usr/home/me/www/mysite.com .
This is very unsafe, as you already noticed. Dovecot will iterate all folders
it can find, even if you are only opening mail/.
> It puts in these folders an .imap folder that is containing the exact
> content of the folder it is put in. So my site takes double space by this
> Dovecot indexing.
>
The .imap folder will not contain duplicate of your mails. It contains indexes.
These are not going to end up being same size as your mailbox.
> To solve this issue, I defined my mail_location line asmail_location =
> mbox:/home/%u/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
> and removed the 'mail/' directive from my mail client.
>
> For some reason this does not prevent Dovecot to index the subfolders
> of/usr/home/me/www/
>
> - Do I have to remove all Dovecot related indexing files by hand to solve
> this and restart Dovecot service afterwards?
You will have to restart dovecot.
> - Can you tell me how I can define the Dovecot index files location so that
> there will be no .imap folder created anymore in my/usr/home/me/www/
> subfolder(s)?
>
Once you fix your mbox to point to correct location, they stop appearing.
> Thanks for you help!
> Elise
>
> #CSSis {beautiful};
Aki
