On 18/04/2012 17:45, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 18.4.2012, at 14.36, John Robinson wrote:
I'd like to change the on-disk layout for my mboxes from being
~/mail/foo/bar
to
~/mail/foo.bar
so that I can have folders containing both messages and subfolders, without
having subfolders beginning with . and then having to do all the other fiddling
with locations of index files etc. that goes along with LAYOUT=maildir++, and
also leaving the filesystem layout looking sensible so my users see their
mailboxes instead of the index and control files.
Is this possible or do I need to patch something?
Not possible without patching. There's also the other possibility of doing
something like:
# Trick mbox configuration which allows a mail folder which contains both
# messages and sub-folders
mail_location =
mbox:~/mail/mailboxes:DIRNAME=mBoX-MeSsAgEs:INDEX=~/mail/index:CONTROL=~/mail/control
from http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MboxChildFolders
Yes, I read all that, and thought all the options were pretty ugly - and
the comment that it's a "trick" configuration would seem to suggest that
the original author thought so to. And I think Maildir++ is pretty ugly
too. If I wanted to try writing a new LAYOUT, where should I begin?
Cheers,
John.
