Hello,
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In higher dovecot versions INBOX seems to be a kind of protected
foldername. dovecot is not offering this folder in folderlist. If i
rename it, the folder is available again.
[...]
Is there an explaination for this behaviour?
The case-insensitive mailbox name INBOX is a special name reserved to
mean "the primary mailbox for this user on this server". The
interpretation of all other names is implementation-dependent.
Its not about the INBOX itself in /var/mail, there are some clients like
groupoffice which do their own foldermanagment and create a Folder INBOX on
top-level in mailspace
Hiding user created folders with Name INBOX seems to be based on standard
namespace config in 2.1.x
In dovecot 2.1.7 we have in global:
mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
namespace inbox {
inbox = yes
}
This seems to be the default and leads to the problem that Folders with Name
INBOX are hidden.
Like suggested in http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Namespaces (Examples Mixed mbox
and Maildir) i changed the standard namespace to:
namespace inbox {
separator = /
prefix = "#mbox/"
location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
inbox = yes
hidden = yes
list = no
}
namespace mbox {
separator = /
prefix =
location = mbox:~/mail
}
Because we are using mbox, i have to set up the 2nd namespace again with
"location = mbox:~/mail".
This works and Folders with Name INBOX are shown again. This namespace
configuration looks a bit strange to me, but works. Is this a recommend way
to do this? I dont want to get surprised by other behaviour.
Thanks,
Hajo
