Re: [Dovecot] What does namespace inbox {... mean

[Thomas Hochstein]

Jonathan Ryshpan schrieb:

 It appears from the wiki that the word following the namespace
 declarator (if this is the right word) should be either public,
 shared, or private, and describes a property of the namespace being
 declared. 

AFAIS the word following the keyword namespace is the name (of the
namespace). The type (public, shared or private) is declared by
using a type definition.

 So what does:
 namespace inbox {...
 mean?

That is a definition of a namespace named inbox.

-thh

[Dovecot] What does namespace inbox {... mean

[Jonathan Ryshpan]

I'm trying to set up a dovecot server for which mail arrives in an mbox,
and mail is stored in a maildir.  The wiki (see
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces) refers to this as Mixed mbox and
Maildir.  It advises handling this situation by creating two
namespaces: one for the mbox and the other for the maildir. On the other
hand the sample configuration coming with dovecot in my distro puts
inbox in a namespace starting with:
namespace inbox {
  # Namespace type: private, shared or public
  #type = private

It appears from the wiki that the word following the namespace
declarator (if this is the right word) should be either public,
shared, or private, and describes a property of the namespace being
declared.  So what does:
namespace inbox {...
mean?  Similarly in another part of the wiki (see
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Virtual), I read that it's possible
to have
namespace virtual {
namespace real {
...
which only increases my perplexity.

Please advise!

Thanks - jon