Am Montag, 2. Dezember 2013, 09:29:54 schrieb Charles Marcus: > On 2013-12-02 9:24 AM, Florian Lindner <mailingli...@xgm.de> wrote: > > Problem may be that in my database home and mail location is identical > > (and > > there is no way to change that). Is there a way to tell dovecot that every > > mailbox is a maildir without modifying the database? > > There are very good reasons why this is broken... > > And I highly doubt that it *can't* be changed... you just don't want to > go through the pain, right? > > Personally, I think you should rethink this decision, but if you still > 'can't, then learn to live with the pain.
Actually I don't really understand why that is so strictly enforced as a number of dovecot tools (deliver, doveadm) refuse to work while imap is working perfectly without any additional settings or workarounds. My maildir show a number of folders like .*, the usual cur, new, tmp and the dovecot* files. I don't see any possible name clash there, even without stat'ing the entries to test if it's a directory. I just need to disable the mail storage autodetection and set it always maildir. Prefixing the database entry for the mail field with maildir: changes nothing. I've read the warnings about having mail == home but honestly I don't understand. Sorry if I miss the point here, but I'm eager to learn. Kind Regards, Florian