[Dovecot] dot named folders

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sat Mar 10 18:06:20 EET 2012


On 7.3.2012, at 21.43, Micah Anderson wrote:

> When a user makes a folder called 'x.y' it actually creates a folder
> called 'x' with a folder called 'y' inside, rather than a folder called
> 'x.y'. I'm guessing this has to do with an internal folder separator
> namespace configuration, but I'm a bit confused by how this works.
> 
> I'm using 2.0.15 with mdbox and this is what I have configured for my
> namespaces:
> 
> namespace {
>  separator = .
>  prefix =
>  inbox = yes
> }

Keep this.

> namespace {
>  separator = .
>  prefix = INBOX.
>  inbox = no
>  hidden = yes
>  list = no
> }
> 
> I migrated from courier maildirs, so perhaps I no longer need some of
> these now that the conversion is finished?

It depends on if you have any users whose clients are using INBOX. namespace. If there are, and you remove it, the users won't see anything except INBOX anymore.


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