[Dovecot] Dovecot development status v1.0

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Jun 6 14:19:08 EEST 2005


On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 11:40 +0200, Claudio Succa wrote:
> |>   > How about the mixing of Maildir and mbox?  (See the thread I started
> |>   > previously at
> |>   > http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2005-March/006390.html)
> |>   > Any steps in this direction?  Could this be made easier after those
> |>   > changes?
> |>
> |>   These changes don't help that problem at all. I was thinking about
> |>   leaving this after v1.0 as it would require pretty large changes. It
> |>   would be a nice feature though.
> 
> I just read the thread. I am not shure to understand the question.
> 
> I succesfully configured dovecot-1.0test68 so that the same user can have both 
> a Mailbox and a Maildir and can access it by pop3, pop3s, imap and imaps 
> protocols with the same password. I have not very large acconts (26 users for 
> a total of 1.2 GBytes) but it is regularly running since the start of May.

You probably defined different namespaces for mboxes and maildirs?

What the thread was about was the ability to have a directory containing
both mboxes and maildirs and Dovecot would detect itself when opening
the mailbox if it's mbox or maildir, without any special configuration.
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