On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 14:50 +0100, Jochen wrote: > Hello Timo, > > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 12:47:08PM +0200, you wrote: > > > The .subscriptions file goes to the mbox root directory. This can't be > > changed with mboxes. > > If I have a few central shared IMAP folders in mbox format, how could > I manage the subscriptions problem? Here it is quite usual that > several users subscribes to one or more of these folders. If the > .subscriptions file goes to the root directory of those shared folders > only the first user will be able to subscribe to these folders.
Right, that's a problem that can't be solved with v1.0 + mbox. > > With maildir you could specify a different directory with > > :CONTROL=path. > > O.k., is it possible to convert just the shared folders to Maildir > leaving the user mailboxes in mbox format for now? Yes. Just change the location = .. in the shared namespace to point to maildir instead of mbox. > > With v1.1 there's a new subscriptions=no namespace setting. Then you can > > specify that you have all users' subscriptions in only the private > > namespace. > > Great. But v1.1 does not compile in our good old mailserver. :-( > gcc 2.91 (please, no comment on this...). A few days (or weeks?) ago there was a patch in this list for compiling Dovecot v1.1 with gcc 2.95. That would probably work for 2.91 too. > Perhaps it is possible to compile a statically linked dovecot on one > of our newer machines? That should work too.
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