Hi

This explains it:

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 20:35:04 +0300 Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> wrote:

On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 19:13, Tim Southerwood wrote:

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default_mail_env = mbox:%h/IMAP/:INBOX=%h/.email:INDEX=/var/cache/dovecot/%n

The INBOX indexes are being built correctly in /var/cache/dovecot, but all other indexes for folders are still being built in the user's home directory.

I had it working once - but it seems fragile - almost as if the config parser is sensitive to context??? Sorry - seems vague, but I can't pin this down reliably.

Have you set full_filesystem_access = yes? That's the only thing that I can think of that might make it use different directory (and even then only if you access the mboxes as "~/IMAP/box").

Yes - I have full_filesystem_access = yes and my mail folders are stored in the form ~/IMAP/

So the "fragility" which I mistakenly accused the code of was probably due to experimenting with a potential upgrade from WU-IMAP where people have variable mail storage directories (~/IMAP or ~/Mail or others) - I was swicthing that option on and off regularly.

In fact that issue may be solved by the advice you just gave someone else on the use of namespaces - I will try that tomorrow.

Thanks for the quick reply Timo.

The test series are looking good.

Best wishes

Tim

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