> On 13/08/2021 19:09 Bryan K. Walton <bwalton+1608560...@leepfrog.com> wrote: > > > Our Dovecot installation is configured as such: > > mail_location = > mbox:/var/vmail/%u:DIRNAME=.mboxdata:INBOX=/var/vmail/%u/INBOX:INDEX=/var/vmail/indexes/%u > > This allows us to continue using mbox formatted files, storing those > mbox data files in a file called .mboxdata. This allows our users to > create folders and subfolders. The only exception to this is our > inboxes, which are more traditional mbox files. > > However, we have some Outlook users that insist on trying to create > subfolders of their inbox. This doesn't work, since the inbox is a > file. But Outlook still does it and it causes sync issues, as there is > now a subfolder under the user's inbox, but that subfolder is ONLY > present in Outlook (it isn't present on the server). > > Is there anything that we can configure so that Dovecot instructs > Outlook that it cannot attempt to create subfolders under the inbox, but > allow subfolders elsewhere? > > Thanks! > Bryan
You could try acl plugin, it might let you prevent this. Aki