also sprach Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> [2012.08.16.2359 +0200]: > I have a not very complex script; it uses the mutt tree as reference and > makes symlinks for dovecot: > > https://bitbucket.org/cameron_simpson/css/src/tip/bin/mkdovecotmap
Mine (currently offline, so I cannot attach) does three things more:
1. checks for new folders in both directions, so that if I create
a new folder with mutt, it gets migrated to the IMAP hierarchy
and symlinked back to mutt;
2. checks for removed folders and removes them in both
hierarchies;
3. if .debian/ is a folder and .debian.mutt another, then debian
itself won't be symlinked, but only cur,new,tmp will. Otherwise
this would cause symlinks to be stored in a symlinked
directory, meaning they would end up in the wrong hierarchy.
So yeah, it works, but I wanted to know if there is a better way.
- IMAP to localhost is okay if configured properly, but it does
need a password that either needs to be entered on every start
of mutt, or stored somewhere. Also, tab-completion of folders
doesn't quite work as expected.
- Andre suggested to use
mail_location = maildir:%h/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs
in dovecot, which I have yet to try. If this does what a web
search suggests, then it will make dovecot use mutt's hierarchy
instead of the standard IMAP-hierarchy, and that would solve my
problem, I think: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Maildir
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